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Especially compare it to SpaceMacs (https://www.spacemacs.org https://www.spacemacs.org), another vim IDE with a similar name. I bet LunarVim is supposed to be

• pxc 5y ago
  There are already two Spacemacs-inspired vim distributions called 'spacevim' (maybe one has given way to the other by now, idr), so this might just be a similar project with a name that hopes to be more distinctive.
• d3nj4l 5y ago
  Space macs is an eMacs district with plugins to make it feel more like vim, so it definitely isn’t a “vim ide”
  • garren 5y ago
    Spacemacs has holy-mode so it’s not just to make it emacs feel like vim. It’s curated and managed like a distribution, and in my opinion makes emacs much more accessible. I’d say in both cases, once you have editor support for syntax highlighting, refactoring, autocomplete/intellisense, live/interactive error reporting, etc. you’ve stepped out of the realm of text editing and squarely into IDE territory. A fully loaded Spacemacs install (and by the looks of it, LunarVim) is not Eclipse or VS with reSharper, but they compete and are well beyond a simple text editing.