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Hi Mr Philips,

I liked the first chapters quite a bit, and trying it coming from a history of vi/vim/sublime/vs where I never took the time for proper configuration. However I'm not a big fan of subscriptions (Patreon) is there a way I can do a one time payment for the book, or is it far from being finished?

Thanks

Those are my questions and thoughts, too. The chapters so far are very good. I would definitely pay for the e-book.

Thank you! I still have three or four chapters to write and then quite a bit of editing to go on the whole. I think a finished e-book is at least two months out, but I'll see what I can do about a preview release.

The main problem is I don't currently have a way to contact folks who are interested! I'll maybe add a mailing list signup form to subscribe for updates. Meanwhile, I am posting updates to my blog (https://dusty.phillips.codes), which has an RSS feed, as well as to LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dusty-phillips/) and Facebook Author page (https://www.facebook.com/dustyphillipsauthor). I think Patreon also has an option to follow me without sponsoring, but I'm not clear on what gets posted to that feed (haven't been too impressed with Patreon, TBH).

cool, good to hear. I bookmarked the page indeed and a mailinglist for the interested I think is a good idea.

In the meantime, reading https://www.lazyvim.org too and messing around with some plugins.

This looks beautiful.

I'm a long time vim/neovim user, and have a couple of curious colleagues who I'll be linking to this soon.

I really like the tone of the writing, the visual style, the pacing, the examples.

Maybe having animated GIFs or similar to visualise jumping around might be nice too? (Eg showing the cursor position in the `w` section).

Great work!

Teach a man to configure LazyVim and you feed him for a day. Teach a man nvim API and some Lua and you feed him for a lifetime.

Why not both? Both is good.

Very minor typo on landing page: "The two of hthem recently", in case the owner is reading.

Thanks!

The title says a lot. And is true.

Just made the switch to NeoVim using LazyVim. I would have never thought how big the difference is compared to VS Code or other IDEs. It's incredible discoverable thanks to whichkey. The most used commands get into muscle memory fast. Adding Typescript or Rust is easily done via LazyExtras. Telescope all the way. I only need to get better at some Vim core features.

Really great stuff and even better with this book.

Installed! This is an excellent intro. I have experience with nvim, but have stuck with vscode for convenience reasons until now.

> A course for the editor curious Missed opportunity to use ”vi-curious"

Fantastic work, I recently switched to a different OS and want to challenge myself. I'll be sure to buy the book once it's available.

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