SpaceVim/docs/index.md

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Introduction

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.

See the documentation or the list of layers for more information. Hack-SpaceVim will tell you how to hack SpaceVim.

If you are new to vim, you should learning about Vim in general, read vim-galore.

Install

Linux/Mac

If you are using linux or mac os, it is recommenced to use this command to install SpaceVim:

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

with this command, SpaceVim will be installed. all the plugins will be install automatically when first time run vim/nvim. for more info about the install script, please check:

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

windows support

• 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.

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. by default, when open a cmd, the current dir is your Home directory, run this command in cmd.

git clone https://github.com/SpaceVim/SpaceVim.git AppData\Local\nvim