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Re:Emacs for Professionals by stonemetal12 on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @10:51AM (#31249077)
I tried once, but there seems to be something wrong with their download. It is just a bunch of config files without an executable. Gave up and went back to vim. People joke about not being able to exit vim, but I couldn't even start spacemacs.
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Re:Emacs for Professionals by ngai_aku on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @11:00AM (#31249178)
> It is just a bunch of config files without an executable.

Exactly right. It's assumed that you have emacs installed separately. From the spacemacs repo...

> Spacemacs is an extension of a popular text editor called Emacs. Thus you need to first install base Emacs and then download the Spacemacs extension files with Git.

Give it another try! You might like it.

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