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> You'll be far better off knowing your setup intimately than learning to skim the very large surface area of spacemacs. I disagree. spacemacs is not all that

> You'll be far better off knowing your setup intimately than learning to skim the very large surface area of spacemacs. I disagree. spacemacs is not all that scary or hard. it's a thin configuration over emacs packages that all work well together. Take for instance the java layer: it has some configs to make completion work well, syntax highlighting, add things to the "mode leader menu that changes per file type" and a few other things. ootb spacemacs works very well and is a pretty good experience.

cryptarch 10y ago
Might I ask how you've picked up Emacs? Did you start with Spacemacs or did you have prior experience and understanding of Emacs?
- weaksauce 10y ago
  Never used emacs before and I was a power vim user that was sick of all the vim extensions feeling hacky and not integrated together nicely(the vim scripting language, viml, is awful and it's no wonder that these extensions are hacky) and liked the idea of spacemacs because I used a basic version of it on vim with space as my leader. no which key popup on vim so the bindings were very simple and you had to remember them by heart (I think I used `spc e v` for "edit vimrc" and `spc e z` for edit the zsh dotfile. spc-= to format the entire file etc.) I jumped into spacemacs and figured out how to do the vimrc bindings that I had in emacs lisp. I watched a few videos[1] from the creator of spacemacs to see how he configured his and to see what was the way to navigate files in spacemacs correctly. watch a magit video[2][3] too... that program(I say program because it's basically full git well done) is phenomenal. hit me up on the gitter.im channel for spacemacs if you have questions on it or emacs. 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKF41ivkBb0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKF41ivkBb0 (basics of spacemacs... also check out his channel for a complete dive into each of the prefixes and how to use them) 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQO7F2Q9DwA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQO7F2Q9DwA (basics of magit) 3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtliRYQd0j4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtliRYQd0j4 (more advanced features of magit like rebasing interactively and easily.)

cryptarch 10y ago

Might I ask how you've picked up Emacs? Did you start with Spacemacs or did you have prior experience and understanding of Emacs?

weaksauce 10y ago
Never used emacs before and I was a power vim user that was sick of all the vim extensions feeling hacky and not integrated together nicely(the vim scripting language, viml, is awful and it's no wonder that these extensions are hacky) and liked the idea of spacemacs because I used a basic version of it on vim with space as my leader. no which key popup on vim so the bindings were very simple and you had to remember them by heart (I think I used `spc e v` for "edit vimrc" and `spc e z` for edit the zsh dotfile. spc-= to format the entire file etc.) I jumped into spacemacs and figured out how to do the vimrc bindings that I had in emacs lisp. I watched a few videos[1] from the creator of spacemacs to see how he configured his and to see what was the way to navigate files in spacemacs correctly. watch a magit video[2][3] too... that program(I say program because it's basically full git well done) is phenomenal. hit me up on the gitter.im channel for spacemacs if you have questions on it or emacs. 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKF41ivkBb0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKF41ivkBb0 (basics of spacemacs... also check out his channel for a complete dive into each of the prefixes and how to use them) 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQO7F2Q9DwA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQO7F2Q9DwA (basics of magit) 3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtliRYQd0j4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtliRYQd0j4 (more advanced features of magit like rebasing interactively and easily.)