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A community-driven Emacs distribution - The best editor is neither Emacs nor Vim, it's Emacs *and* Vim!

93 mentions on Hacker News by 79 people: 9 stories, 84 comments · first 2014-11-17 · latest 2023-09-07

Mentions per year 93 mentions · busiest year 2015 (32)
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  1. > Switch from emacs to vim or vice versa. Switch to emacs + evil, or alternatively to Spacemacs: https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs
    comment by sawwit · 2015-12-30 · in Resolutions for programmers (2012)
  2. …"vim" https://bitbucket.org/lyro/evil/wiki/Home There's even an emacs distribution built around it https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs
    comment by giggles_giggles · 2015-12-18 · in Show HN: A fireplace for Emacs
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    ReactJS Support for Emacs (Spacemacs)
    story by javinpaul · 2015-12-17 · 0 comments
  4. …taken the time to figure out a workaround to make this work in the traditional emacs manner? [0] https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs#os-x [1] https://github.com/railwaycat/emacs-mac-port/blob/master/REA...
    comment by erikcw · 2015-12-09 · in Making My Emacs Start Faster
  5. Spacemacs solves this by lazy loading every package possible: https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/blob/master/doc/DOCUME...
    comment by Walkman · 2015-12-09 · in Making My Emacs Start Faster
  6. there is: https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs There is a Django layer in it, you can start runserver witha keystroke, open settings.py with another keystroke, run all tests, etc..
    comment by Walkman · 2015-11-29 · in A CEO's Guide to Emacs
  7. https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs Great community, has a very friendly Gitter chat room where people collaborate, very nice maintainer as well.
  8. …with a simple workflow. As a former Vim user, I can recommend evil-mode and the SpaceMacs project: https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs https://bitbucket.org/lyro/evil/wiki/Home > An Emacs distribution - The best editor is neither Emacs…
    comment by _yy · 2015-11-27 · in Worg, the Org-Mode Community
  9. I rather like the changes made by spacemacs https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs
    comment by macros · 2015-11-13 · in Ask HN: Why doesn't emacs look pretty
  10. Try spacemacs. https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/ It's an emacs configuration meant to be a hybrid of the best in emacs and vim. I'm a vim user of several years, and am just beginning to do some clojure development of my own, so I…
  11. …but the experience isn't as complete w.r.t. tooling[3]. There's always Spacemacs as well[1]. [1] https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs [2] https://github.com/the-lambda-church/merlin/wiki/emacs-from-... [3]…
    comment by ane · 2015-10-20 · in So you're learning OCaml
  12. I've mostly switched from Vim to Emacs by using spacemacs: https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/blob/master/doc/DOCUME... I like the keybinding conventions (all starting with SPC, hence the name).
    comment by edwintorok · 2015-10-13 · in The Little Printf
  13. [Spacemacs]( https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs )
    comment by IanMalcolm · 2015-09-24 · in Vim setup for Go
  14. …the mouse, that may trip up people who are used to clicking around Sublime/Atom or their IDEs. [1] https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/blob/master/doc/DOCUME... [2] https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/blob/master/doc/DOCUME... [3]…
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    Spacemacs - The best editor is neither Emacs nor Vim, it's Emacs *and* Vim!
    story by macco · 2015-09-07 · 7 comments
  16. I am liking spacemacs better than slimv https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/tree/master/contrib/sl...
    comment by doanyway · 2015-08-28 · in State of the Common Lisp Ecosystem
  17. Not anymore: https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs Seriously though, this joke has unbeliveable staying power, despite being almost as old as emacs itself.
    comment by chousuke · 2015-08-05 · in Emacs X Window Manager
  18. Try Spacemacs: https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs
    comment by JoshMnem · 2015-08-04 · in Why Write Python in Visual Studio?
  19. …is an Emacs "distribution" of sorts that is trying to make the entire experience with Evil better: https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs 3. There are attempts to make VimL better, Neovim being the most notable:…
    comment by JoelMcCracken · 2015-07-04 · in Firemacs: Emacs keybindings for FireFox
  20. You may also like spacemacs. They've got a pretty nice <SPACE> + a lot of keys binding system. https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs
    comment by ortuna · 2015-06-02 · in How to boost your Vim productivity
  21. spacemacs (includes evil) plug: https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs Really great.
    comment by methehack · 2015-05-23 · in Mastering Emacs
  22. evil-mode is a very good emulation of vim in Emacs. I use spacemacs ( https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs ) which builds on evil-mode with extra goodness. You might find you like one or the other.
    comment by noelwelsh · 2015-05-05 · in Org-trello: Trello for org-mode
  23. Here, be free! https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs I just discovered this the other day, it's awesome.
    comment by Jonovono · 2015-04-20 · in SX – Stack Exchange mode for Emacs
  24. …tab If you are looking for workspaces i.e. organizing buffers into logical group, use Perspective: https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/tree/master/contrib/pe... . > And it doesn't even look for them in the cwd, but does…
  25. …Actually, Emacs got something better than rainbow-parentheses for visual aiding parentheses: https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/issues/1173 For proper sexp manipulation, check this guide with great animations:…
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    Spacemacs – Emacs advanced kit focused on Evil
    story by weavie · 2015-04-17 · 102 comments
  27. And Spacemacs ( https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs ) is a good way to have a nice Evil integration. The only downside I found is when you have to install your first new packages, Spacemacs forces you to integrate it in a…
    comment by cranium · 2015-04-08 · in Absolute Beginner's Guide to Emacs (2012)
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    The best editor is neither Emacs nor Vim, it's Emacs *and* Vim
    story by conorwade · 2015-03-23 · 0 comments
  29. …Visual Studio, Xcode, etc. Emacs is an editor construction kit: http://ergoemacs.org/features.html https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs
    comment by melling · 2015-03-23 · in Mg: an Emacs-like editor in 160 kb
  30. Try Spacemacs: https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs Being a Vim user of 4+ years, and having made 2 previous attempts at switching to Emacs, this is the setup that finally made me immediately productive enough to get work done. Been using…
    comment by jpradeek · 2015-01-21 · in Emacs Is My New Window Manager
  31. You might want to try https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs
    comment by vijaykiran · 2015-01-21 · in Emacs Is My New Window Manager
  32. someone here recommended spacemacs https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs . I get far less friction setting up emacs extensions than vim ones.
    comment by rjblackman · 2015-01-15 · in Write Emacs extensions in Haskell
  33. …it seems many other people share my attitude and there are "Batteries Includes" versions of Emacs. https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/blob/master/doc/DOCUME...
    comment by melling · 2014-12-19 · in “Mastering Emacs” ebook announced
  34. Cool, I like the "Batteries Included" attitude. https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs
    comment by melling · 2014-12-19 · in “Mastering Emacs” ebook announced
  35. …it doesn't expose you to default key bindings (by default), I've been really digging this project https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs as a gentle and more intuitive introduction into the world of Emacs.
    comment by avtar · 2014-12-18 · in “Mastering Emacs” ebook announced
  36. …Emacs. Evil is the best Vim emulator out there, said Vimmers who switched to Emacs. See Spacemacs: https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs > If look at Atom for instance, they introduced a concept where the editor window is not simply…
    comment by tuhdo · 2014-12-15 · in Stack Exchange for Emacs
  37. Pardon my ignorance but just running `git clone --recursive http://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs ~/.emacs.d` would install it? Wouldn't I need a working Emacs installation first? If yes, which one should I install for a Mac?
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    The best editor is neither Emacs nor Vim, it's Emacs and Vim
    story by kols · 2014-12-07 · 7 comments
  39. …great tools. I recently switched to Vim bindings (evil-mode) and a week ago switched to Spacemacs ( https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs ) which integrates better with evil-mode . So far I'm really liking the Spacemacs approach. tl;dr:…
    comment by noelwelsh · 2014-11-30 · in Making Emacs Work for Me
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    Emacs advanced Kit focused on Evil-mode
    story by LiveTheDream · 2014-11-25 · 0 comments
  41. Emacs can make Vim a subset of it. You should check spacemacs: https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs . It was made by Vimmers and is ambitious: it wants to replace not only the "editor" inside Emacs, but also rebind everything else to…
    comment by tuhdo · 2014-11-21 · in CotEditor – Text Editor for OS X
  42. …who want to learn Emacs): https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude - Spacemacs (for long time Vim users): https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs
    comment by tuhdo · 2014-11-17 · in Emacs Rocks
  43. You can check https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs if you want to use Evil mode not just for editing but for everything else in Emacs. Just clone to your ~/.emacs.d and start Emacs then everything will be automatically installed for you.…
    comment by tuhdo · 2014-11-17 · in Emacs Rocks