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Tried Spacemacs 3-4 times because of org mode. Most specifically inline code block execution, through org-babel. Still not ready to change over from vim, though.

What I haven't done is check neovim. Any comments regarding the potential for inline code execution?

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Org-mode comes standard with plain emacs (no need for all the extra bells and whistles that come with spacemacs, necessarily). Since you're a vim user, try installing evil as a first plugin, and only adding additional ones as you see fit. I found that spacemacs did too much and preferred vanilla emacs + evil + a few python plugins. Still, I mostly use vim for smaller scripts. Emacs is better as an IDE in my opinion.

In my experience, you really can't beat Org-mode when it comes to inline code execution. You can preview LaTex and plotting inline as well. Plus, you can of course export the document into a variety of formats (HTML, PDF, etc.), which are quite customizable thereafter. Here is a document I put together with Org-mode for a short C++ seminar [1]. All the code is executable while editing the document in Org, which is nice for a number of reasons. I also added some custom CSS/JS for the HTML export.

[1]: https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/notmatthan...

> Any comments regarding the potential for inline code execution?

Try codi.vim for REPL-like eval:

https://github.com/metakirby5/codi.vim

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