Spacemacs - The best editor is neither Emacs nor Vim, it's Emacs and Vim!

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Spacemacs is such a great framework for development (and more). I echo shadeless's comments. I've been working with it since March and I've become exponentially more productive since.

Spacemacs is awesome, I've been using it exclusively since January and it keeps getting better and better!

There's too many nice things to list them in a comment but feel free to AMA.

Is it beginner friendly? I've never used either, is this a good or a bad place to start?

It is heavily opinionated but is very beginner friendly. I transitioned from Sublime Text to Spacemacs about a week ago and I am really enjoying the increase in editing speed, especially with the Vim keybindings.

Thanks, one more questions: Did you follow a tutorial or just jump right in and saw what happened?

I'd say it's much more beginner friendly than out of the box Vim and Emacs. In the first couple of days I kept the documentation page [1] open to quickly check how to do something (or how to do it easier/faster), than moved to using the builtin commands for getting help [2]. And if you get stuck on something or have a question there is also an active Gitter channel [3].

One thing that you should keep in mind that Spacemacs was meant to be used without 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] https://gitter.im/syl20bnr/spacemacs

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Spacemacs - The best editor is neither Emacs nor Vim, it's Emacs *and* Vim!

Spacemacs - The best editor is neither Emacs nor Vim, it's Emacs and Vim!