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I'm finding it hard to get to something on the website that tells me exactly what this is?

badosu 8y ago
Seems like a convention of standard set of plugins and configuration. I am very interested, seems like it has good defaults for having an IDE-like experience on vim but was not able to find a nice video tutorial explaining it. Definitely gonna try it later.
SwampertX 8y ago
Seems like an opposite of spacemacs - thus vim with emacs key bindings?
- FelipeCortez 8y ago
  I believe it’s just Vim with lots of plugins and sane defaults
  - wsdjeg 8y ago
    yeah，but it manages plugins via layer. and the layers are disabled by default.
9935c101ab17a66 8y ago
The homepage: >SpaceVim - Modern Vim distribution SpaceVim is a distribution of the Vim editor that’s inspired by spacemacs. It manages collections of plugins in layers, which help collecting related packages together to provide features. For example, the python layer collects deoplete.nvim, neomake and jedi-vim together to provide autocompletion, syntax checking, and documentation lookup. This approach helps keeping configuration organized and reduces overhead for the user by keeping them from having to think about what packages to install.
a3n 8y ago
The "About" link at the top.
ISO-morphism 8y ago
Looks like Spacemacs [1], but for vim. Spacemacs has a more thorough "what is this." Emacs is best thought of as a lisp virtual machine that happens to edit text. Vim is a hell of a text editor that happens to have a Turing complete scripting language. Spacemacs gives emacs a good text editor, while it looks like Spacevim is attempting to make extending vim easier. The future of emacs and vim as platforms is interesting. Perhaps, at least for developer tools, we'll see more projects using these cross platform text editors as platforms for text based user interfaces in a revolt against electron. [1] https://www.spacemacs.org https://www.spacemacs.org
- themodelplumber 8y ago
  > we'll see more projects using these cross platform text editors as platforms for text based user interfaces in a revolt against electron. Wow, I did not anticipate this comment ending this way.
- ageofwant 8y ago
  "revolt against electron" who even uses that hippy shit ? vim for life and after .-=-. / + \ | ~~~ | | :wq!| |_____|
  - fxfan 8y ago
    As a vim user, please don't give the rest of us a bad name ;). You're sounding like a hippy :)
- fxfan 8y ago
  I like your explanation of emacs and vim. Btw, neovim natively talks async using msgpack meaning plugins can be written in any language (with glue in vimscript)
- bpye 8y ago
  I don't like the trend of Electron being used anywhere but I've really struggled to match my productive in VS Code in Vim or Spacemacs. I've certainly tried! I even spent a month or two last year using exclusively OpenBSD and nvi as a bit of an experiment - I did enjoy how quick my text editor opened for example, but I am still a lot more productive in Code. Any suggestions for someone wanting to learn without their productivity taking a dive? Maybe finding a Vim plugin for my existing editor and learning there before switching to "real" vim... I'm not sure.
ThemalSpan 8y ago
I use SpaceVim for everything! In a nutshell, its a "shared" configuration for vim (neovim really imho), as well as an extensable framework for adding new functionality. For example, its nice to have to have plugins offer similiar functionality on similiar key combos. Have a shared configuration allows for once idealogy to take hold. The Spacebad + mnemonics approach of Spacemacs + Spacevim is a really good base to build on.
- anthonybullard 8y ago
  The one thing I can't leave Spacemacs/Doom for is Org Mode. I have everything there now. Is it even feasible for Org Mode layer in Spacevim?
  - w0m 8y ago
    Generally speaking, Org Mode is the only thing that's really missing in Vim in comparison I think. I've been using Vim Wiki but have been told it's not really comparable.
  - didibus 8y ago
    Put it the other way, what's the one thing that would be better if you did move to Vim? Or in another way as well, what about Spacemacs/Doom would make you want to move away from it?
    - anthonybullard 8y ago
      Performance and removing the Emacs keybinding layer that I think complicates the way I use the tool. But mostly performance.

Seems like a convention of standard set of plugins and configuration. I am very interested, seems like it has good defaults for having an IDE-like experience on vim but was not able to find a nice video tutorial explaining it. Definitely gonna try it later.

SwampertX 8y ago

Seems like an opposite of spacemacs - thus vim with emacs key bindings?

FelipeCortez 8y ago
I believe it’s just Vim with lots of plugins and sane defaults
- wsdjeg 8y ago
  yeah，but it manages plugins via layer. and the layers are disabled by default.

9935c101ab17a66 8y ago

The homepage: >SpaceVim - Modern Vim distribution SpaceVim is a distribution of the Vim editor that’s inspired by spacemacs. It manages collections of plugins in layers, which help collecting related packages together to provide features. For example, the python layer collects deoplete.nvim, neomake and jedi-vim together to provide autocompletion, syntax checking, and documentation lookup. This approach helps keeping configuration organized and reduces overhead for the user by keeping them from having to think about what packages to install.

a3n 8y ago

The "About" link at the top.

ISO-morphism 8y ago

Looks like Spacemacs [1], but for vim. Spacemacs has a more thorough "what is this." Emacs is best thought of as a lisp virtual machine that happens to edit text. Vim is a hell of a text editor that happens to have a Turing complete scripting language. Spacemacs gives emacs a good text editor, while it looks like Spacevim is attempting to make extending vim easier. The future of emacs and vim as platforms is interesting. Perhaps, at least for developer tools, we'll see more projects using these cross platform text editors as platforms for text based user interfaces in a revolt against electron. [1] https://www.spacemacs.org https://www.spacemacs.org

themodelplumber 8y ago
> we'll see more projects using these cross platform text editors as platforms for text based user interfaces in a revolt against electron. Wow, I did not anticipate this comment ending this way.
ageofwant 8y ago
"revolt against electron" who even uses that hippy shit ? vim for life and after .-=-. / + \ | ~~~ | | :wq!| |_____|
- fxfan 8y ago
  As a vim user, please don't give the rest of us a bad name ;). You're sounding like a hippy :)
fxfan 8y ago
I like your explanation of emacs and vim. Btw, neovim natively talks async using msgpack meaning plugins can be written in any language (with glue in vimscript)
bpye 8y ago
I don't like the trend of Electron being used anywhere but I've really struggled to match my productive in VS Code in Vim or Spacemacs. I've certainly tried! I even spent a month or two last year using exclusively OpenBSD and nvi as a bit of an experiment - I did enjoy how quick my text editor opened for example, but I am still a lot more productive in Code. Any suggestions for someone wanting to learn without their productivity taking a dive? Maybe finding a Vim plugin for my existing editor and learning there before switching to "real" vim... I'm not sure.

ThemalSpan 8y ago

I use SpaceVim for everything! In a nutshell, its a "shared" configuration for vim (neovim really imho), as well as an extensable framework for adding new functionality. For example, its nice to have to have plugins offer similiar functionality on similiar key combos. Have a shared configuration allows for once idealogy to take hold. The Spacebad + mnemonics approach of Spacemacs + Spacevim is a really good base to build on.

anthonybullard 8y ago
The one thing I can't leave Spacemacs/Doom for is Org Mode. I have everything there now. Is it even feasible for Org Mode layer in Spacevim?
- w0m 8y ago
  Generally speaking, Org Mode is the only thing that's really missing in Vim in comparison I think. I've been using Vim Wiki but have been told it's not really comparable.
- didibus 8y ago
  Put it the other way, what's the one thing that would be better if you did move to Vim? Or in another way as well, what about Spacemacs/Doom would make you want to move away from it?
  - anthonybullard 8y ago
    Performance and removing the Emacs keybinding layer that I think complicates the way I use the tool. But mostly performance.