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title: "Home"
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description: "SpaceVim is a community-driven vim distribution that seeks to provide layer feature."
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[](https://gitter.im/SpaceVim/SpaceVim)
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[](https://travis-ci.org/SpaceVim/SpaceVim)
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[](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/wsdjeg/spacevim/branch/dev)
[](https://codecov.io/gh/SpaceVim/SpaceVim/branch/dev)
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[](https://github.com/SpaceVim/SpaceVim/releases/tag/0.5.0)
[](https://github.com/SpaceVim/SpaceVim/blob/dev/LICENSE)
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SpaceVim is a community-driven vim distribution that supports vim and Neovim. SpaceVim manages collections of plugins in layers. Layers make it easy for you, the user, to enable a new language or feature by grouping all the related plugins together.
Please star the project on github - it is a great way to show your appreciation while providing us motivation to continue working on this project. The extra visibility for the project doesn't hurt either!
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See the [documentation ](https://spacevim.org/documentation ) or [the list of layers ](http://spacevim.org/layers/ ) for more information.
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Here is a throughput graph of the repository for the last few weeks:
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[](https://waffle.io/SpaceVim/SpaceVim/metrics/throughput)
## Requirements
At a minimum, SpaceVim requires `git` and `wget` to be installed. These tools are needed for downloading plugins and fonts.
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If you are new to vim, you should learning about Vim in general, read [vim-galore ](https://github.com/mhinz/vim-galore ).
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## Install
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### Linux and macOS
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```bash
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curl -sLf https://spacevim.org/install.sh | bash
```
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After SpaceVim is installed, launch `vim` and SpaceVim will **automatically** install plugins.
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For more info about the install script, please check:
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```bash
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curl -sLf https://spacevim.org/install.sh | bash -s -- -h
```
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### Windows
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The easist way is to download [install.cmd ](https://spacevim.org/install.cmd ) and run it as administrator, or install SpaceVim manually.
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## Features
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- **Great documentation:** access documentation in Vim with < kbd > SPC h SPC</ kbd > .
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- **Beautiful UI:** you'll love the awesome UI and its useful features.
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- **Mnemonic key bindings:** all key bindings have mnemonic prefixes.
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- **Describe key bindings:** use < kbd > SPC h d k</ kbd > to describe key bindings, and find definition of key bindings.
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- **Lazy load plugins:** Lazy-load 90% of plugins with [dein.vim ](https://github.com/Shougo/dein.vim )
- **Neovim centric:** Dark powered mode of SpaceVim
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## News
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[Newsletter #1 - A New Hope ](https://spacevim.org/SpaceVim-Newsletter-A-New-Hope/ )
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> Published on: 2017-5-31
More posts are in the [SpaceVim's Blog ](https://spacevim.org/blog/ )
[Follow @SpaceVim ](https://twitter.com/SpaceVim )
## Get Involved
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Discuss the project at [gitter.im/SpaceVim ](https://gitter.im/SpaceVim/SpaceVim ) or [/r/SpaceVim ](https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceVim/ )
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Contribute code, report bugs and request features at [GitHub ](https://github.com/SpaceVim/SpaceVim ).
## FAQ
1. What is the project status?
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The current stable version is 0.5.0. See the milestones page for development progress and the roadmap for high-level plans.
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2. Is SpaceVim trying to turn Vim/Neovim into an IDE?
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With layers feature, this version of vim distribution try to turn vim/neovim into an IDE for many language.
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3. Which version of vim/neovim is needed?
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vim 7.4/neovim v0.1.7, and `+lua` or `+python3` is needed.
