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SpaceVim – A community-driven Vim distribution

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Shouldn't this be "Show HN"? And has anything changed significantly since the last show HN?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13958300

Very confusingly there is 'space-vim' [1] and 'SpaceVim' [2]. Your link is about the former, this submission is about the latter.

[1] https://github.com/liuchengxu/space-vim [2] https://github.com/SpaceVim/SpaceVim

yeah. We add many new features. and the default ui is changed.

it is not same project! why the the title is changed?

Somewhat tangential, but I have been pushed, due to certain laptop problems, into 'living on the terminal'. However I couldn't bring myself to become fluent in Vim or Emacs as I felt my time to return to Sublime or Atom would come again. I in fact ended up configuring Vim to behave exactly like a 'conventional' editor - therefore no Normal Mode, unless for panes that require it like NERDTree. From this experience there are 2 things I would like more people to know;

1. Vim is way, way, way more than its modal keybinding paradigm, it has some 15,000 plugins - significantly more than any other editor I know of.

2. Neovim has much better key chord (ie, key combination) support. The only thing it is yet to support is case sensitive combinations involving CTRL - actually that's still a pretty significant shortcoming.

So it is indeed very possible to live in the terminal as a developer. I wonder if I even need a window manager, the only 2 GUI apps I now use are Alacritty (GPU-based terminal written in Rust) and Chromium.

I think you can have a try with i3-wm

> case sensitive combinations involving CTRL

Historically, pressing the CTRL key would set the 6th and 7th bits of the pressed key to 0.

So CTRL+J would turn both J (1001010) and j (1101010) into Line Feed (0001010).

I suppose some modern systems may have a way to distinguish between these signals, but some systems would not be able to easily generate a different signal for ^j and ^J.

A question: I am an Emacs user. Is SpaceVim similar to the Spacemacs setup? I do a lot of work in the terminal, and am always interested in improving my setup.

yeah. SpaceVim is something like spacemacs, but for vim and neovim.

Title needs change. The link is for SpaceVim's documentation.

hmm, What the title should be?

wow the 4 core pillars is exactly the same as spacemacs. Are you the same team?

just installed, and it fucked up my vim. good job

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