I've been using emacs for about 20yrs as my main coding editor and vi regularly as a fast command line editor. Can some one explain in clear terms why I would want to learn a new set of key bindings? What are the advantages of spacemacs other than a better configuration system and nifty graphics? Both the Github page and website do a terrible job of explaining this, IMO. Maybe the answer is that it was not made for me.
Also a great addition is the new Spacemacs website which went live today: <a href="http://spacemacs.org/" rel="nofollow">http://spacemacs.org/</a>
People like to say that emacs isn't an editor but a platform, or just a lisp interpreter that comes with text editing libraries. But is it? The emacs development team sees it as a text editor, I think. If it was just an interpreter, I can imagine many editors built on top of it, with spacemacs being just one. If it's an editor, than wouldn't you expect the good ideas from projects like spacemacs to make its way into the emacs core? I wonder if the emacs core team should go all in with the emacs-as-a-platform idea and focus on just the core features, letting projects like spacemacs to create an appealing editor.
Slightly off-topic. I'm looking for a tutorial/article/project to create a toy (or even feature-full) emacs-like text editor from the ground up.<p>Using two languages: C and scheme (preferably R7RS-small).<p>I have quite a few resources to create a vi/vim like editor from scratch (vis, some python projects, etc) but non in the scheme+C arena along emacs lines.<p>Emacs project itself is a bad example of studying the architecture of such an editor because of its humongous codebase (~250 kloc C, ~1.2 Mloc e-lisp) unless someone has done a good write-up about how to get familiar with architecture and extensibility infrastructure.
1.2 What is the official pronunciation of Spacemacs?<p>As it is written, that is space then macs.<p>I was wrong this whole time. I always pronounced it like "space emacs" or "spacey-macs" if you will.
For me Spacemacs is perfect:<p>7~ years using vim
4 years using emacs<p>enjoyed modal editing in vim, got very good with it
enjoyed how easy it was to program/debug emacs
tried setting up evil, wasn't up to the task of configuring it<p>With both Emacs and Vim I had trouble having to upgrade my configs too often, but that's not necessarily their fault.<p>It could just be a coincidence of timing, but Spacemacs gives me most of what I want by default and makes it easy for me to customize.<p>I will say that the Emacs graphic rendering bug which causes pathologically bad performance on long lines has been biting me a lot using Spacemacs to do Golang development.
A colleague is using it and I had a look, but it seems kind of weird because it doesn't seem like Emacs any more to the point where I couldn't easily do Emacs stuff with it.<p>I've been using regular old Emacs for about 20 years. For those more familiar with Spacemacs, how hard is it to accomplish some of what it does, or transition to a more normal Emacs setup once you get to like Emacs?<p><i>Edit</i> - this is just out of curiosity. I hope to use Emacs for another 20 years at least :-)
everyone talks about spacemacs=vim. this is nice, but what turned me off of spacemacs was the layers config abstractions. It breaks the normal configuration of emacs.<p>Just install evil mode and a few contrib packages.. that's spacemacs lite.
This is really cool, I've been using bbatsov's one and I'm going to try this. One thing I <i>really</i> suggest is installing the seethru plugin here's a screenshot, it makes emacs transparent.<p><a href="http://imgur.com/DUCv2UK" rel="nofollow">http://imgur.com/DUCv2UK</a><p>I also use webstorm 11 as my emacs skill is insufficient to graduate to apprentice neckbeard. my apologies.
I used spacemacs for a bit a few months ago but launch-times were really long. I use emacs as my default editor and I really hated the bootstrapping process when I fired up emacs to edit a config from the command line.<p>If someone has a simple fix to this problem I would gladly use it since they seemed to have the right ingredients for a top notch experience.
All the links in the docs TOC are broken: <a href="https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/blob/master/doc/DOCUMENTATION.org" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/blob/master/doc/DOCUME...</a>
I tried it for couple of weeks but returned back to emacs. It has some cool features but I couldn't get used to its keybindings. I'm sure they're customizable but I wasn't motivated enough to do so.