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Use Vim as IDE	blog	A general guide for using SpaceVim as general IDE	BlogPosting	true	Use Vim as IDE

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This is a general guide for using SpaceVim as IDE. including following sections:

• Installation
• Default UI
• Fuzzy finder
• Files and Windows

Installation

SpaceVim is a Vim configuration, so you need to install vim or neovim, here is a guide for installing neovim and vim8 with +python3 feature.

after installing Vim, following the quick start guide to install SpaceVim,

Default UI

Fuzzy finder

SpaceVim provides 5 fuzzy finder layer, they are unite, denite, fzf, leaderf and ctrlp. To use fuzzy finder feature, you need to enable a fuzzy finder layer. for example enable denite layer:

[[layers]]
name = "denite"

Files and Windows

The windows ID will be shown on the statusline, and users can use SPC + number to jump to specific windows, the buffer id or tabpage id will be shown on the tabline. To jump to specific tab, you can use Leader + number the default leader in SpaceVim is \.