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SpaceVim is a community-driven vim distribution that seeks to provide layer featur, escpecially 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.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Features
• Documentation
• Getting Help
• Install
• Update
• Community
• Support SpaceVim
  • Report bugs
  • contribute to SpaceVim
  • Write post about SpaceVim
• Credits & Thanks

Introduction

SpaceVim is a community-driven vim distribution with a bundle of modular configuration, here we call these modules as layers, each layer has different plugins and config, users just need to select the layers they need. It got inspired by spacemacs. If you use SpaceVim, please star it on github. It's a great way of getting feedback and gives me the kick to put more time into development.

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

Features

• Great documentation: access documentation in Vim with :h SpaceVim.
• Beautiful GUI: you'll love the awesome UI and its useful features.
• Mnemonic key bindings: commands have mnemonic prefixes like [Window] for all the window and buffer commands or [Unite] for the unite work flow commands.
• Lazy load plugins: Lazy-load 90% of plugins with [dein.vim]
• Batteries included: discover hundreds of ready-to-use packages nicely organised in configuration layers following a set of conventions.
• Neovim centric: Dark powered mode of SpaceVim

Documentation

Comprehensive documentation is available for each layer by :h SpaceVim.

You can also check the general documentation.

Getting Help

If you need help, ask your question in the Gitter Chat, a member of the community will help you out.

Community

Try these Neovim hangouts for any questions, problems or comments.

• Ask
  • issue tracker for issue and feature requests
  • vi StackExchange for "how to" & configuration questions
  • for hugs & pithy comments
• Chat
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• Discuss

Install

Linux/Mac

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

before use SpaceVim, you should install the plugin by call dein#install()

Installation of neovim/vim with python support:

neovim installation

Building Vim from source

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. 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

Support SpaceVim

report bugs

If you get any issues, please open an issue with the ISSUE_TEMPLATE. It is useful for me to debug for this issue.

contribute to SpaceVim

Write post about SpaceVim

Credits & Thanks

• 
• vimdoc generate doc file for SpaceVim
• Rafael Bodill and his vim-config
• Bailey Ling and his dotvim