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title:  "Home"
description: "SpaceVim is a community-driven vim distribution that seeks to provide layer feature."
---

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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!

![welcome-page](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/13142418/33793078-3446cb6e-dc76-11e7-9998-376a355557a4.png)

See the [documentation](https://spacevim.org/documentation) or [the list of layers](http://spacevim.org/layers/) for more information.

Here is a throughput graph of the repository for the last few weeks:

[![Throughput Graph](https://graphs.waffle.io/SpaceVim/SpaceVim/throughput.svg)](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.

If you are new to vim, you should learning about Vim in general, read [vim-galore](https://github.com/mhinz/vim-galore).

## Install

### Linux and macOS

```bash
curl -sLf https://spacevim.org/install.sh | bash
```

After SpaceVim is installed, launch `vim` and SpaceVim will **automatically** install plugins.

For more info about the install script, please check:

```bash
curl -sLf https://spacevim.org/install.sh | bash -s -- -h
```

### Windows

The easist way is to download [install.cmd](https://spacevim.org/install.cmd) and run it as administrator, or install SpaceVim manually.

## Features

- **Great documentation:** access documentation in Vim with <kbd>SPC h SPC</kbd>.
  ![SPC h SPC](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/13142418/31620230-48b53eea-b2c9-11e7-90d0-b717878875d4.gif)
- **Beautiful UI:** you'll love the awesome UI and its useful features.
  ![beautiful UI](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/13142418/33804722-bc241f50-dd70-11e7-8dd8-b45827c0019c.png)
- **Mnemonic key bindings:** all key bindings have mnemonic prefixes.
  ![mapping guide](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/13142418/31550099-c8173ff8-b062-11e7-967e-6378a9c3b467.gif)
- **Describe key bindings:** use <kbd>SPC h d k</kbd> to describe key bindings, and find definition of key bindings.
  ![describe key](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/13142418/33804739-52dbc498-dd71-11e7-97e5-ed0fa6ec1719.gif)
- **Lazy load plugins:** Lazy-load 90% of plugins with [dein.vim](https://github.com/Shougo/dein.vim)
  ![UI for dein](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/13142418/31309093-36c01150-abb3-11e7-836c-3ad406bdd71a.gif)
- **Neovim centric:** Dark powered mode of SpaceVim

## Blogs

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               <span class="post-date">{{ post.date | date_to_string }}</span>
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            </li>
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</ul>

More posts are in the [SpaceVim's Blog](https://spacevim.org/blog/)

[Follow @SpaceVim](https://twitter.com/SpaceVim) 

## Get Involved

Discuss the project at [gitter.im/SpaceVim](https://gitter.im/SpaceVim/SpaceVim) or [/r/SpaceVim](https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceVim/)

Contribute code, report bugs and request features at [GitHub](https://github.com/SpaceVim/SpaceVim). 

## FAQ

1. What is the project status?

The current stable version is 0.5.0. See the milestones page for development progress and the roadmap for high-level plans.

2. Is SpaceVim trying to turn Vim/Neovim into an IDE?

With layers feature, this version of vim distribution try to turn vim/neovim into an IDE for many language.

3. Which version of vim/neovim is needed?

vim 7.4/neovim v0.1.7, and `+lua` or `+python3` is needed.