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# Introduction
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[](https://travis-ci.org/SpaceVim/SpaceVim)
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[](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SpaceVim/SpaceVim/dev/LICENSE)
[](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SpaceVim/SpaceVim/dev/doc/SpaceVim.txt)
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[](http://isitmaintained.com/project/SpaceVim/SpaceVim "Average time to resolve an issue")
[](http://isitmaintained.com/project/SpaceVim/SpaceVim "Percentage of issues still open")
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SpaceVim is a community-driven vim distribution that seeks to provide layer feature, especially for neovim. It offers a variety of layers to choose from. to create a suitable vim development environment, you just need to select the required layers.
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See the [documentation ](https://spacevim.org/documentation ) or [the list of layers ](http://spacevim.org/layers/ ) for more information. [Hack-SpaceVim ](https://github.com/Gabirel/Hack-SpaceVim ) will tell you how to hack SpaceVim.
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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/Mac
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If you are using linux or mac os, it is recommenced to use this command to install SpaceVim:
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```sh
curl -sLf https://spacevim.org/install.sh | bash
```
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with this command, SpaceVim will be installed. all the plugins will be install **automatically** when first time run vim/nvim.
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for more info about the install script, please check:
```sh
curl -sLf https://spacevim.org/install.sh | bash -s -- -h
```
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### windows support
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- For vim in windows, please just clone this repo as vimfiles in you Home directory.
by default, when open a cmd, the current dir is your Home directory, run this command in cmd.
make sure you have a backup of your own vimfiles.
```sh
git clone https://github.com/SpaceVim/SpaceVim.git vimfiles
```
- For neovim in windows, please clone this repo as `AppData\Local\nvim` in your home directory.
for more info, please check out [neovim's wiki ](https://github.com/neovim/neovim/wiki/Installing-Neovim ).
by default, when open a cmd, the current dir is your Home directory, run this command in cmd.
```sh
git clone https://github.com/SpaceVim/SpaceVim.git AppData\Local\nvim
```
