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Or want your text automatically cut off at 80 characters and reformat your paragraphs? Have you ever seen an undo-feature that is so powerful it visualizes your whole editing history in a tree : https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/UndoTree? \n\nOf course learning a decent text-editor takes some time but this process can be very fun and engaging. Customizing and personalizing your editor takes even more time but here spacemacs comes to the rescue!\nOnly after some time-investment, you will start to realize what an improvement a customizable editor (and perhaps vim's *normal-mode*) can make!\n\nThese editors are so powerful that many programmers prefer them above complete IDE's like Visual Studio or Eclipse. Some people seem to like SublimeText but that one comes with all the downsides of closed software.\n\n# Some words about vim\n\n## Modal editing\n\nWhen you start up vim (for example `vi myfile.md` from a Linux-shell), you are in **normal mode** which allows you to navigate around without moving your hands from the typing area of your keyboard : the cursor keys are replaced with `j`, `k`, `h` and `l`. If you want to insert text, you have to enter **insert mode** with `i`. To leave insert mode, you press `ESC` (or, as many power-users do, in your `.vimrc`-file you make a binding to a key-combination like `fd` or `jj` so you have to move your hands *even less* - since reaching for that `<ESC>`-key slows you down - yes, we are that puristic).\n\nThe first step to vim-mastery is realizing that **normal mode** is your **main mode** and you start to use commands to jump from word to word (`w`, `b`, `e`), sentence to sentence (`(`, `)`) and paragraph to paragraph (`{`, `}`).\n\nThe second step is that you start to use commands like `cw` (change word) to replace one word, or the mighty powerful `ct.` (change till next `.`) which allows you to change anything from the current cursor position until the first `.`.\n\nThen there are also macro's you can record with `q` and execute with `@`. The `.`-command repeats your last command. I regularly use this to quickly put a `-` in front of a bunch of words, to create a list.\n\nCheck for example this talk if you want to see some of it in action.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGqUTtYWAXc\n\n## Plugins\n\nThe next level of vim-mastery you will reach with plugins. \n\nAs a developer I've found https://github.com/tpope/vim-commentary to be indispensable : selecting a piece of text (in **visual mode**) with `v` and then pressing `gcc` puts code in comments (depending on which programming language you're working in).\nAlso https://github.com/tpope/vim-surround has at many occasions drastically improved my workflow : with a few keypresses I am able to surround a piece of text with characters like `(`, `\"`, `'` and even to quickly change something surrounded with `'` to `\"`.\n\nAnd then one day I tried https://github.com/dhruvasagar/vim-table-mode which really got me realizing how much power vim has. It goes as far as to basically have a mini-Excel (with ascii-art tables) inside your text-editor!\nIn fact, It was a simple mail to the author of this plugin from which I learned the inspiration for it had come from emacs' **org-mode**. For me this  ultimately led to the discovery of http://spacemacs.org/ (more about this later).\n\n## Writing my own plugin\n\nAfter some time I became quite proficient in editing/personalizing my `.vimscript`-file (or rather: using Vundle to install plugins and copy/paste some stuff from the `README.md`'s into my own config) and got interested in learning a bit of vimscript myself. I soon discovered my time would be better spent learning some **elisp** in stead. Or rather: to achieve many more cool things, I wouldn't even have to learn vimscript but could just start using http://spacemacs.org/.\n\n# Emacs\n\nI had tried emacs before (i.e. I did the included tutorial) but the modal-style of editing of vim still had my preference.  (Vi being the de-facto standard editor on Linux-shells is how I got into it.) As I told you before it was **org-mode** (http://orgmode.org/) which renewed my interest in emacs. I played around with emacs for a few hours, configuring my `.emacs.d`-file as I had learned to do with vim. I stumbled upon this talk, which made me realize I had to give emacs a serious chance before deciding switching back to vim with its ugly vimscript : \n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWD1Fpdd4Pc \n\n## Major- and minor-modes\n\nEditing a *buffer* (a text-file) in emacs always happens with exactly **one major-mode** and **many minor-modes** active. The sole thing I want to tell about it here is that the major `text-mode` together with the minor `auto-fill-mode` already provided me with (**pure emacs out-of-the-box!**) functionality I had spent quite some time fine-tuning on vim. This was my first `+1` for emacs.\n\nAnother `+1` is the help-system and how it automatically shows which keybindings a command has, even if you have changed it in your `.emacs`-file. In standard emacs (and also in spacemacs, since it is largely compatible) you can press `CTRL-h k` followed by a key-comination to learn about the command attached to that key combination.\n\nI like that to learn emacs, I can spend most of my time inside it and only occasionally have to ask Google for help.\n\n## Org-mode\n\nAnd so we arrive at one of the killer-plugins of emacs, especially if you are a TODO-list fanatic : the major *org-mode*.\nThis talk gives you one of the best overviews of what's possible, by the creator of org-mode himself (meanwhile showing that emacs can also be a life-saver for computer-users with bad vision): \n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJTwQvgfgMM\n\nAfter this, I also got to know GTD (http://gettingthingsdone.com/) which basically teaches you how you have been managing  your TODO-lists the wrong way all-along...\n\n# Enter spacemacs\n\nPersonally I found it rather enjoyable to look for emacs-plugins, configure my `.emacs.d`-file and then testing some new feature my text-editor had just gotten. I learned about many interesting plugins which were all easily installable as *MELPA-packages* from inside emacs : try `ALT-x` (or `M-x` as emacs-users call it) with which you can execute any command and then execute `package-list-packages` which gives you an idea how many plugins you can install.\n\nIt was in my quest for interesting packages that I stumbled upon the main topic of this post : http://spacemacs.org/. All of a sudden I am now not looking for new packages, but rather learning about the packages the spacemacs-team chose to include. So far I am loving their choices and it became clear to me that emacs really is a superior editor. It's a bit harder to find good documentation about the spacemacs-configuration of some packages specifically, since you will often find the pure-emacs-version first. That said : with a bit of google-fu and a lot of exploration inside spacemacs itself, I'm sure you too will find some killer-feature! It is a quest I'm currently very much engaged in...\n\nIn my `.spacemacs.d`-file I have so far activated several amazing **spacemacs layers** : `git`, `markdown`, `autocomplete` not to mention some of the programming layers. Besides those layers, I have not yet felt the need to configure much since the spacemacs-defaults are mostly very good. One minor problem with the default configuration for me is that `fd` is the standard key-combination to exit *evil-insert-mode*, which happens to be a character-combination which is common in my mothertongue (Dutch) and therefore occasionally annoys me when writing text in Dutch. I have yet to change it to `jj` which I prefer.  The little vimscript `imap jj <ESC>l` used to be the first thing I added to an empty `.vimrc`-file. After the discovery of spacemacs, I wonder if I will still use vim often enough to make it worthwhile to add this basic vim-configuration when (and if!) installing it on a new system.\n\n# Emacs as your only tool?\n\nIt is said that emacs is not so much a text-editor as it is a complete working environment, even an OS. I don't see it that way *yet*.\n\nI was pleasantly surprised with the included IRC-package (erc) and LaTeX-editing and -previewing is something I haven't seen any other text-editor do. It renders me hopeful that Emacs 25 (not out yet) will even let me (graphically) browse the web : https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/4srze9/watching_youtube_inside_emacs_25/.\n\nThat said, these days I still use a lot of other tools like **FAR manager** (http://www.farmanager.com/) with its built-in editor (which is just a `F4`-press away) for a lot of quick modifications. It remains to be seen if spacemacs with it's HELM file-browser will make me (partially) change this workflow in the foreseeable future.\n\nFor Windows-users that want to have the joy of having something like Ubuntu's `sudo apt-get install`to install software, I recommend https://chocolatey.org/packages which is how I install most of my Windows-tools. Unfortunately spacemacs isn't included there yet.\n\nI also recommend **ConsoleZ** (https://chocolatey.org/packages?q=consolez) for an improved shell on Windows.\n\n# Installation\n\nTo conclude, let me quickly get you up to speed on how to try it yourself on Windows.\n\nFirst of all : install emacs itself. For Windows I would recommend https://sourceforge.net/projects/emacsbinw64/.\nOn my Xubuntu 14.04 I found that the 24.3 version in the apt-repository was a bit outdated, so I compiled my own from source. I believe OS X users can use `brew`.\n\nNext you will have to install spacemacs, which basically means you have to `git clone` the spacemacs-repository in the emacs-configuration-directory `.emacs.d`. You can read about it here : https://simpletutorials.com/c/2758/How+to+Install+Spacemacs+on+Windows\n\nI would recommend installing `chocolatey` (mentioned above) to quickly install `git` (with `choco install git`).\n\nAfter the first launch you will be asked if you want `evil`- or `emacs`-mode. If you already know a bit of vim, I recommend `evil`-mode. If not, perhaps you should first install vim (or gvim) (`choco install vim`) and do `:h` to do a very basic vim-tutorial. Of course there is heaps of vim-learning-material on the web, as it is currently a very popular editor, especially for developers using OS X or Linux. \n\nBut remember: once you start modifying your vim-configuration, perhaps it's better to try **spacemacs** instead!\n\nHappy hacking!",
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