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What should the default font be in dotspacemacs?
The settings of dotspacemacs-default-font (such as size, weight, etc.) will only be applied if the name of the font exists on your system. Check to make sure that this is the case. If Spacemacs can’t find the font, there should be a warning to this effect in the *Messages* buffer.
Where do you set a variable in Spacemacs?
Any variable that layer configuration code will read and act on must be set in user-init, and any variable that Spacemacs explicitly sets but you wish to override must be set in user-config . Anything that isn’t just setting a variable should 99% be in user-config .
How to change the way Spacemacs marks buffers as useless?
To change the way spacemacs marks buffers as useless, you can customize spacemacs-useless-buffers-regexp which marks buffers matching the regexp as useless. The variable spacemacs-useful-buffers-regexp marks buffers matching the regexp as useful buffers. Both can be customized the same way.
Which is the variable in dotspacemacs-additional-packages?
Spacemacs provides a variable in the dotspacemacs/layers function in .spacemacs called dotspacemacs-additional-packages. Just add a package name to the list and it will be installed when you reload your configuration with SPC f e R, or at the next Spacemacs launch.
How to set the executable path in Spacemacs?
Spacemacs uses the exec-path-from-shell package to set the executable path when Emacs starts up. This is done by launching a shell and reading the values of variables such as PATH and MANPATH from it. If your shell configuration sets the values of these variables inconsistently, this could be problematic.
Do you have to keep all packages in Spacemacs?
By default Spacemacs will keep only the packages that you use (i.e. the packages belonging to a layer explicitly listed in the variable dotspacemacs-configuration-layers ). To install packages that does not belong to any Spacemacs layers, you can: