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I am not sure of the utility of SpaceVim. Why wouldn’t I just find and install the plugins myself?

• timothylaurent 4y ago
  mostly because you can spend an arbitrary amount of time tweaking your vim to get it the way you want it. This Vim distros, like SpaceVim and AstroNvim, are a great foundation working on an IDE-like vim setup. For example, in AstroNvim - the path completion dropdown shows icons and all paths accessible, when focusing on a file, it shows the head of the file. It's a really smart UX integration. It would likely have taken me weeks to months of playing with my config to have a small subset of what is available in the distro. They're also very configurable, so you can override any key-binding you want, add or disable plugins. I guess it depends on how you want to spend your time :shrug
• linsomniac 4y ago
  I used LunarVim, switched about 6 months ago because I was tired of maintaining my virc settings that I'd been carrying around for decades and a bunch of plugins. SpaceVim has a really slick install and gives me all the LSP and a nice collection of plugins. And someone else is maintaining it!