Drew Neil - Modern Vim

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Im grateful to have the opportunity to work with the Pragmatic Bookshelf. Thanks to Susannah Pfalzer for encouraging me to submit a proposal for another book on Vim. And thanks to Katharine Dvorak for all your help throughout the project.

This book could not have happened without the support of my wife, Hannah. Im so grateful to you for believing in me.

Modern Vim also wouldnt have been possible without my technical reviewers. Each of you contributed something and helped shape the book. Id like to thank Ali Alwasity, Kassio Borges, Eric Casteleijn, Tim Chase, Junegunn Choi, Javier Collado, Dave Copeland, Marco Hinz, Justin Keyes, Andy Lester, Janko Marohnic, Tim Pope, Steven! Ragnarok, fREW Schmidt, Miroslav ediv, Tibor Simic, Ken Takata, Tim Tyrrell, Andrew Wray, and Alex Young.

Thanks to the folks at thoughtbot, Ben Orenstein in particular, for commissioning a series of video tutorials about Vim and Neovim. This collaboration pushed me to begin working on the book and gave me a running start.

Im always grateful to everyone who works on Vim, Neovim, and the assorted plugins that make my life easer.

The Neovim logo was designed by Jason Long, and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Weve used the one-color flat variation of the logo, because it looks best both online and in print.

The Vim logo is copyrighted. Thanks to Bram Moolenaar for granting permission to reproduce a one-color flat variation of the Vim logo in this book.

November 2017 was an unusually fruitful month. On November 1, we published the first beta edition of this book. On November 2, my wife gave birth to our son, Conrad. I could hardly believe my luck.