Spacemacs ABC (1)

An incredible demo of the power and learnability of Spacemacs

I've been a vim using for a few years (neovim more recently) and spacemacs got me to convert. The discoverability features alone is reason to switch. I'm sure you know everything I'm about to say, but for anyone curious about spacemacs let me give an example: Edit: Actually before reading what's below just check this video series out. It's a series of videos going through the leader key bindings, which will given a better idea of why I'm trying to say below. In fact, especially check this moment in the video where he discovers a new feature he didn't know about, and tell me that "undo tree visualize" isn't cool as hell. If I want to have multiple buffers open in multiple windows and…

> What about features like tabbed documents and split screen? Do they have that? Am I just unaware about how advanced command line text editors are? I think so. Vim is the best way of text editing I have ever encountered. The modal editing (having separate languages to type, navigate and select) makes it hyper-efficient once it gets into your muscle memory. No more mouse use and all very intuitive (e.g., `ci)` = change inside parentheses, `dt"` is delete till double quote, and press `.` to repeat the last command). To get a feeling for why Vim is great I can recommend this ode to Vim called Vim Creep. I use Spacemacs as an IDE. As others have stated you have good Vim emulation via Evil-mod…