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title = "Modern Vim: Craft Your Development Environment with Vim 8 and Neovim - Drew Neil"
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date = 2018-12-29
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[taxonomies]
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tags = ["books", "reviews", "vim", "drew neil", "it", "neovim", "4 stars"]
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[GoodReads Summary](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36517607-modern-vim):
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Turn Vim into a full-blown development environment using Vim 8’s new features
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and this sequel to the beloved bestseller Practical Vim. Integrate your editor
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with tools for building, testing, linting, indexing, and searching your
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codebase. Discover the future of Vim with Neovim: a fork of Vim that includes
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a built-in terminal emulator that will transform your workflow. Whether you
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choose to switch to Neovim or stick with Vim 8, you’ll be a better developer.
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{{ stars(stars=4) }}
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I'll be honest and say that I did expect a bit more about this book.
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It is not a book talking about changes in the last few years in the VIM
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workflow; it's more about the changes in the ecosystem of VIM. So instead of
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focusing on new features (say, from last version and current version), it
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focuses a lot more on plugins.
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Not that focusing on (recent) plugins is a bad thing: There were changes in the
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infrastructure of VIM that allowed the creation of more modern and flexible
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plugins and talking about them is a good thing. But, again, I expected a more
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focused book on VIM than plugins. If the title were "Craft your VIM environment
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on VIM 8 and Neovim", it would fit perfectly on what the book presents, for
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example.
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In all, it's not a bad book, although it requires that you know VIM beforehand.
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