LazyVim for Ambitious Developers: Chapter 9 released
Hi everyone,
I had a PR merge into LazyVim this week to make mini.files a little more pleasant to use. You can now open files in splits directly from the mini.files window.
If you don’t know what a split is, it’s because you haven’t read Chapter 9, which I just released (What convenient timing)! It’s all about the difference between buffers, layouts, panes, tabs and (you guessed it) splits in LazyVim.
Vim manages windows a bit differently from many editors. Not worse, and not necessarily better, but definitely different. LazyVim ships with the BufferLine plugin by default, which makes Vim act a little bit more like other editors. In some ways, though, that just makes the differences even more confusing. This chapter should clarify all.
In other news, Folke also asked me to add the book to the LazyVim.org website, which drove traffic up a bit. So if this is the first update you’ve received from me, welcome!
Finally, an initial draft of Chapter 11 went up on Patreon this week. Someone kindly let me know that my minimum charge on Github was $100, which… I don’t know how that happened, but it explains why everyone subscribed to Patreon instead! I have dropped the minimum contribution on GitHub to $1 now. GitHub sponsors don’t get access to the preview chapters, but unlike Patreon, GitHub allow you to make a one-time contribution instead of a recurring one.
All the best,
Dusty Phillips