When I first started using Spacemacs, I wished that the Emacs instance had been trimmed down to the bare minimum. That way I could have more easily mapped my Vi

When I first started using Spacemacs, I wished that the Emacs instance had been trimmed down to the bare minimum. That way I could have more easily mapped my Vim knowledge onto Spacemacs without getting confused/distracted by the multitude of extra features and tools Emacs gives you. I was wondering were that method were to be paired with a tutorial, if that would help ease people into Spacemacs/Emacs more. In other words, each step or lesson in the tutorial enables a new feature and explores it. So perhaps start with basic text editing, saving, opening, recently used files etc. Then add something like git or magit, and explore how that is used, then explore how the git and editing interact. Each new feature discussed would be like adding a new layer to the ~/.spacemacs file.