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So, I went and took a look at Spacemacs, linked from the original post. I guess you're supposed to have some version of Emacs already installed? Because the "

So, I went and took a look at Spacemacs, linked from the original post. I guess you're supposed to have some version of Emacs already installed? Because the "Download" doesn't appear to include a binary, and the "Installation" just appears to set up your ~/.emacs.d/ folder. Funny, I presumed that an "Emacs Distribution" would include Emacs.

noelwelsh 3y ago
Yes, you need to install Emacs. It is probably available from whatever package manager your system uses. I prefer Doom (https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs) to Spacemacs. However I haven't looked at Spacemacs for many years; perhaps it's now on par with Doom.
avgcorrection 3y ago
An OS distribution is a whole OS because you need an OS. An Emacs “distribution” (quotes) doesn’t include Emacs because you can already install vanilla Emacs yourself. Que Emacs is an OS jokes.
SuperNinKenDo 3y ago
It's a fair point IMO. Especially with something like Spacemacs, which really presents a fairly radical different experience to vanilla. I'm not sure anything is really gained by NOT including their own Emacs binary. I guess Emacs doesn't break external code that often, so it might not be a huge issue, but I can't imagine there is never a version mismatch that leads to unnecessary user confusion.