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Re:SpaceVim – Like Spacemacs, but for Vim by sevensor on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @10:21AM (#13318948)
Personally I'm thrilled by the fragmentation in this space -- I've been using Vim since 4.x, and vi before that. I've never found the plugins particularly enticing; every time I try using things that are outside the core distribution, they end up taking more time to maintain than they're worth. Since I mainly stick with the core distribution, Vim has felt pretty stagnant since it got code folding and syntax highlighting, more than 15 years ago. I've been trying alternatives -- spacemacs feels bloated, neovim is still carrying a lot of baggage (e.g. support for vimscript). So far Kakoune is the one I'm most excited about, to the point where I am right now updating my neglected Cygwin installation so I can try to build it for Windows. (Kakoune needs unix-style select, so native Windows builds are unlikely.)

> By feature complete I mean autocomplete, error detection, built in one-button-runs, automatic config/sane defaults.

By and large, I find features like these distracting to the point of unusability, which is why I like living in stripped-down editor land. Different strokes for different folks.

Re:SpaceVim – Like Spacemacs, but for Vim by gravypod on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @11:05AM (#13319366)
I think the difference here is you want a text editor and I want an IDE in a terminal.
Re:SpaceVim – Like Spacemacs, but for Vim by sevensor on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @11:15AM (#13319446)
Exactly, and I don't think vim is a good platform to build an IDE on, despite a long history of people trying. I'm not an emacs guy, so I'm not speaking from experience here, but my impression of emacs is that it's already an IDE in the terminal. It's got a bit of a reputation for being a massive pile of elisp hacks, so maybe guile-emacs is the future there?