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"Thanks! I'll send you an email once the book is released."<p>How about sharing vim tips every week as you are writing the book? If you write me one email 8 months from now, I'll probably forget who you are.
We don't need a book.<p>We need a vim installer that can do all those things which you will have to otherwise spend time and work endless hours customizing vim to do.<p>The reason why people move to modern GUI based editors is those editors do many things out of the box which you have to otherwise spend time learning and then do it.
Did you consider using the approach taken by <a href="http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/" rel="nofollow">http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/</a>? In that case each chapter was put online as soon as it was written, and then rewritten after taking account of comments. Only when it was finished was the hard copy published.<p>In the end it made for a far better book, and I believe the author made as much money, possibly even more than if he had followed a more traditional process. In any case I don't suppose you were planning to retire on the proceeds of a book on Vim.<p>Best of luck, however you choose to write it. I look forward to reading it.
Love everything about Vim. I found "Vim Essentials" here on HN for free and was mostly bored reading it. This seems a bit more interesting.<p>How about a promise on the page not to share our email with any third parties?