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Re:Spacemacs - The best editor is neither Emacs nor Vim, it'... by wodenokoto on Tuesday September 08, 2015 @12:05AM (#10184071)
Is it beginner friendly? I've never used either, is this a good or a bad place to start?
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Re:Spacemacs - The best editor is neither Emacs nor Vim, it'... by shadeless on Tuesday September 08, 2015 @02:54AM (#10184371)
I'd say it's much more beginner friendly than out of the box Vim and Emacs. In the first couple of days I kept the documentation page [1] open to quickly check how to do something (or how to do it easier/faster), than moved to using the builtin commands for getting help [2]. And if you get stuck on something or have a question there is also an active Gitter channel [3].

One thing that you should keep in mind that Spacemacs was meant to be used without the mouse, that may trip up people who are used to clicking around Sublime/Atom or their IDEs.

[1] https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/blob/master/doc/DOCUME...

[2] https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/blob/master/doc/DOCUME...

[3] https://gitter.im/syl20bnr/spacemacs

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Re:Spacemacs - The best editor is neither Emacs nor Vim, it'... by Immortalin on Tuesday September 08, 2015 @12:32AM (#10184127)
It is heavily opinionated but is very beginner friendly. I transitioned from Sublime Text to Spacemacs about a week ago and I am really enjoying the increase in editing speed, especially with the Vim keybindings.
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Re:Spacemacs - The best editor is neither Emacs nor Vim, it'... by wodenokoto on Tuesday September 08, 2015 @02:51AM (#10184361)
Thanks, one more questions: Did you follow a tutorial or just jump right in and saw what happened?
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