What is Emacs Spacemacs?

What is Emacs Spacemacs?

Spacemacs is a configuration framework for GNU Emacs. It can take advantage of all of GNU Emacs’ features, including both graphical and command-line user interfaces, and being executable under X Window System and within a Unix shell terminal.

Is Spacemacs an IDE?

Spacemacs is a great editor that combines the best of Emacs and Vim. Spacemacs can be configured to be as heavyweight and featured as an IDE, a lightweight text editor, and everything in between.

Why should you use Emacs?

The best feature of Emacs is how easy it makes programmatically interacting with text. As programmers and sysadmins, we spend most of our day interacting with text on a computer. So having a platform for automating text interaction can save us a lot of time every day.

Should I start with Spacemacs?

no. Spacemacs still requires you to read documentation and find the packages that might be useful to you. How are you supposed to use them without knowing what they are? Spacemacs just makes it much easier to start using those tools.

Which is more popular Emacs or Spacemacs?

Spacemacs is a pretty popular Emacs distributions now, which also means there are more and more Spacemacs users who have little Emacs experience and cannot debug issues by themselves. Spacemacs now has 1642 opening issues and it’s been like this for a long time, even after several rounds of Autumnal Cleanup.

Which is the best Emacs + evil distribution?

I think I can write some of my thoughts on these 3 different kind of frameworks and it might be helpful for someone out there. Spacemacs IMHO, Spacemacs was and still is the best Emacs+Evil distribution, it’s just not suit me anymore. Best Emacs+Evil distribution

Is there such a thing as Doom Emacs?

As it’s said in its description, doom-emacs is an Emacs configuration for the stubborn martian vimmer. For example, +evil*fix-dabbrev-in-minibuffermakes the evil ex commands auto completion behavior more likes vim.

Which is the best Emacs distribution for Vim?

IMHO, Spacemacs was and still is the best Emacs+Evil distribution, it’s just not suit me anymore. Best Emacs+Evil distribution When I started using Spacemacs, I’ve been using Vim for about 1 year and I just wanted to use org-mode while still keeping my Vim experiences.