My Spacemacs

A basic walkthrough of my favourite Spacemacs customizations, keybindings, features and layers.

This was recorded in one sitting with no editing, so please excuse the uhhms and aaahs. :-)

[edwardbanner]

Amazing video. Superbly dense with useful content. I will be re-watching many times to grasp all of the features you presented here!

[RamonEugenioRodriguez]

Thank you!
From now, learning spacemacs.

[EakenJeremy]

OMG THANK YOU! This is the most useful video for a total noob like me! I learned how to get help from within spacemacs!

[WEIDU]

Thanks for the awesome video! Really helps.

[BoyanAngelov]

A great video! Thank you :) spacemacs is an awesome project indeed.

[isaacscheinfeld]

Thanks a lot! Very helpful in migrating from vim. If you have the time, a video on latex in spacemacs would be great!

[alexsmart]

A better way of removing a minor mode keybinding that is interfering with something you want to have is to set it to nil. For instance, if you used (define-key company-active-map (kbd "C-w") nil), C-w will get mapped to evil-delete-backward-word in insert mode and delete-region in emacs-mode.

[ilemming]

daaaamn... this is good... kudos for doing that

[Catharz]

Thanks, some good stuff.

Any tips for getting a good shell experience with OSX and zsh?

Shell doesn't render my prompt correctly, term and ansi-term do, but then backspace doesn't work inside lein repl (does it with pry).

When I try eshell, I keep getting the error: "Autoloading failed to define function epe-theme-lambda" (with or without the eshell-prompt-extras layer installed).
The directory colours are fine, but I get no "prompt" and interactive programs like `lein repl` and `pry` don't seem to work.

[VigilanceTech]

I appreciate this video but it is so quiet I have to get my head right next to the monitor to hear it, and then when I do that, the screen is too close to focus on the tiny text. Rectifying EITHER of those issues would make it far more valuable.

[ashrasmun]

13:30 maybe because noone sane uses 3 spaces as their indentation level.

[mengzhu]

Hi ! What is your color scheme? It looks gorgeous .

[drgbennett]

Hi +Eivind Fonn
I also tried to set my system up with your spacemacs config, but I run into 1 issue at the moment:

Error in dotspacemacs/user-config: Wrong number of arguments: (lambda (mode unicode &optional ascii) "Diminish MODE name in mode line to UNICODE or ASCII depending on the value

If ASCII si not provided then UNICODE is used instead." (list (quote add-to-list) (quote (quote (list (quote quote) (list mode unicode ascii)))), 1

its related to the lines

;; Diminish
(spacemacs|diminish hybrid-mode)
; (spacemacs|diminish which-key-mode)
; (spacemacs|diminish evil-mc-mode)
; (with-eval-after-load 'emoji-cheat-sheet-plus
; (diminish
; (with-eval-after-load 'racer
; (diminish 'racer-mode))
; (with-eval-after-load 'command-log-mode
; (diminish 'command-log-mode))

if i commment them out it passes without errors.
I am totally new to spacemacs, so don't have an idea what the lisp is doing and why it fails.
Thanks

[yomoma]

Hey, thanks, good video. May i ask how you achived to sometimes scroll the page like you would with a scrollwheel and sometimes "scroll" the point? I'm looking for something like that. And how is it so smoot? Thats my big problem and turnoff about these "old" editors, i can't just glaze through the file and look what i'm looking for. But you seem to be able to, but how?

[VolodymyrVitvitskyi]

@Eivind, thanks for this great video! Is this now a correct link to the .spacemacs file ?

[justrajdeep]

Hi +Eivind Fonn

I an very new to this. I have cloned spacemacs into .emacs.d

i was trying to do a git submodule add of ur repository into private.

But it complains saying that private already exists in the index. Any clue how to fix it?