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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, an

• 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