Emacs SF Meetup on Apr 29, 2015

• http://www.meetup.com/Emacs-SF/events/221733050/

Why GNU Emacs?

• Powerful platform
• 30 years old!

Why Vim?

• Modal interface
  • e.g. Magit, Gnus, Hydra, etc.
• Vim users in the audience:
  • Why do you like Vim?
  • Why do you want to switch to Emacs?

Why Spacemacs?

1. Emacs and Vim
2. Ubuntu:GNU/Linux = Spacemacs:Emacs
3. Spacemacs is an opinionated distribution of Emacs
4. Powerful layers, because Elisp & community
5. Sane keyboard menus (C-c C-x C-i vs. ,i)

@kyptin says:

#vim is a superior editing experience (yay modes!), but #emacs has a superior plugin system, as evidenced by evil-mode and #spacemacs.

Step 1 : Get Spacemacs repo

https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs

git clone \
git@github.com:syl20bnr/spacemacs.git \
~/.emacs.d

See installation demo video

Step 2 : Open Emacs, download the internet

• Choose evil-mode or holy-mode
• Downloads basic packages - evil-mode, etc.
• Downloads another 90 packages

Step 3 : Configure the layers that you want

• SPC f e h
• Enable them in dotspacemacs-configuration-layers in your .spacemacs file (`SPC f e d`)

Step 4 : Profit!

1. Press SPC and see guide-key in action
2. ,j in OrgMode for helm jump in current buffer
3. SPC g f l to open link in github
   1. ~/.emacs.d/core/core-dotspacemacs.el

Docs

• SPC h T to start evil-mode tutorial
• Read the README.md
• Read the docs/DOCUMENTATION.md
• After you have read the above two documents (which will answer most of your initial questions), you can ask questions in http://gitter.im/syl20bnr/spacemacs
• Read evil-mode documentation
• Read helm tutorial
  • https://tuhdo.github.io/helm-intro.html
• When you’re not sure of the key binding, use SPC : (helm-M-x) to search for the right command and it will also display the key bindings

Questions?

• https://gitter.im/syl20bnr/spacemacs
• irc.gitter.im#syl20bnr/spacemacs