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I want to give a shout out to spacemacs.org which let's you do so many of these things and really does feel like the best of Emacs and Vim together. I will say

I want to give a shout out to spacemacs.org which let's you do so many of these things and really does feel like the best of Emacs and Vim together. I will say I am a new convert so I can't comment so much in the plugin infrastructure but raw coding is really good and it's very configurable like emacs but without all of emacs overhead

Synroc 10y ago
did you have experience beforehand in using emacs? I've been using spacemacs for a couple of weeks, but I'm having trouble getting past the most basic usage, and partially it's because I feel like I don't have much experience with emacs.
- no_wizard 10y ago
  I did not in any real sense. I did the tutorial and chose the sane defaults recommended (so called Evil Mode) which gives you some great controls and a nice tutorial you can walk through if you type :tutor at the main screen. I admit I have never used Vim or Emacs but the tutorial was enough to do movement and I also read this wonderful documentation as well: First this here which gives a wonderful overview of the whole philosophy behind SpaceMacs: http://spacemacs.org/doc/DOCUMENTATION http://spacemacs.org/doc/DOCUMENTATION Then I took a look at this just to get some better idea of how to do certain things with the layers since it's very dependent on a layering system: http://spacemacs.org/doc/LAYERS.html http://spacemacs.org/doc/LAYERS.html And for good measure since Evil mode emulates Vim I thought it might be nice to see what this had to say: http://spacemacs.org/doc/VIMUSERS.html http://spacemacs.org/doc/VIMUSERS.html It took me like a week to be efficient but now I'm flying so much faster than I was with VS Code or Atom. I still use Sublimr Text for some things because I like it but this is a great editor and has a lot of potential and is extremely extensible with Emacs lisp and I believe they already have a way to bridge in Vim plugins too

Synroc 10y ago

did you have experience beforehand in using emacs? I've been using spacemacs for a couple of weeks, but I'm having trouble getting past the most basic usage, and partially it's because I feel like I don't have much experience with emacs.

no_wizard 10y ago
I did not in any real sense. I did the tutorial and chose the sane defaults recommended (so called Evil Mode) which gives you some great controls and a nice tutorial you can walk through if you type :tutor at the main screen. I admit I have never used Vim or Emacs but the tutorial was enough to do movement and I also read this wonderful documentation as well: First this here which gives a wonderful overview of the whole philosophy behind SpaceMacs: http://spacemacs.org/doc/DOCUMENTATION http://spacemacs.org/doc/DOCUMENTATION Then I took a look at this just to get some better idea of how to do certain things with the layers since it's very dependent on a layering system: http://spacemacs.org/doc/LAYERS.html http://spacemacs.org/doc/LAYERS.html And for good measure since Evil mode emulates Vim I thought it might be nice to see what this had to say: http://spacemacs.org/doc/VIMUSERS.html http://spacemacs.org/doc/VIMUSERS.html It took me like a week to be efficient but now I'm flying so much faster than I was with VS Code or Atom. I still use Sublimr Text for some things because I like it but this is a great editor and has a lot of potential and is extremely extensible with Emacs lisp and I believe they already have a way to bridge in Vim plugins too