SpaceVim/wiki/Installing-SpaceVim.md

1. Requirements

1) Powerline font:

By defalut SpaceVim use DejaVu Sans Mono for Powerline, to make statusline render correctly, you need to install the font. powerline extra symbols also should be installed. To show the filetype icon in the tabline, you need to install nerd-fonts.

2) Vim 7.4 above or neovim:

• neovim installation

• install vim with python, python3 and lua support

3) git:

SpaceVim will download all plugins via git.

2. Install SpaceVim in Linux/Mac

Install SpaceVim with the command below:

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:

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

3. Install SpaceVim in windows

• 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. also you need remove ~/_vimrc in your home directory.

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