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Spacemacs vs Vim-Plug: What are the differences?

What is Spacemacs? Emacs advanced Kit focused on Evil: The best editor is neither Emacs nor Vim, it's Emacs *and Vim!*. Since version 0.101.0 and later Spacemacs totally abolishes the frontiers between Vim and Emacs. The user can now choose his/her preferred editing style and enjoy all the Spacemacs features Even better, it is possible to dynamically switch between the two styles seamlessly which makes it possible for programmers with different styles to do seat pair programming using the same editor..

What is Vim-Plug? A minimalist Vim plugin manager. A minimalist Vim plugin manager.

Spacemacs and Vim-Plug can be categorized as "Tools for Text Editors" tools.

Some of the features offered by Spacemacs are:

  • Batteries Included
  • Nice UI
  • Excellent ergonomics

On the other hand, Vim-Plug provides the following key features:

  • Easier to setup: Single file. No boilerplate code required.
  • Easier to use: Concise, intuitive syntax
  • Super-fast parallel installation/update (requires +ruby)

"Advanced support for Vim key bindings" is the primary reason why developers consider Spacemacs over the competitors, whereas "Simple" was stated as the key factor in picking Vim-Plug.

Spacemacs and Vim-Plug are both open source tools. Spacemacs with 18.1K GitHub stars and 4.45K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Vim-Plug with 15.2K GitHub stars and 683 GitHub forks.

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Pros of Spacemacs
Pros of Vim-Plug
  • 14
    Advanced support for Vim key bindings
  • 12
    Discoverability
  • 10
    Easy setup
  • 10
    Never have to touch the mouse
  • 7
    Community-driven configuration
  • 7
    Cross-platform
  • 6
    Documentation
  • 5
    Emacs
  • 4
    Fast-paced development
  • 4
    Evil
  • 4
    Nice UI
  • 2
    Git Integration
  • 1
    Autocompletion
  • 5
    Parallel plugins downloading
  • 5
    Simple
  • 4
    Fast
  • 3
    Intuitive

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What is Spacemacs?

Since version 0.101.0 and later Spacemacs totally abolishes the frontiers between Vim and Emacs. The user can now choose his/her preferred editing style and enjoy all the Spacemacs features. Even better, it is possible to dynamically switch between the two styles seamlessly which makes it possible for programmers with different styles to do seat pair programming using the same editor.

What is Vim-Plug?

A minimalist Vim plugin manager.

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Neovim
Neovim is a project that seeks to aggressively refactor Vim in order to: simplify maintenance and encourage contributions, split the work between multiple developers, enable the implementation of new/modern user interfaces without any modifications to the core source, and improve extensibility with a new plugin architecture.
Emacs
GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more. At its core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language with extensions to support text editing.
Vim
Vim is an advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'Vi', with a more complete feature set. Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems. Vim is distributed free as charityware.
SpaceVim
SpaceVim is a Modular configuration, a bundle of custom settings and plugins, for Vim. It got inspired by spacemacs.
ReSharper
It is a popular developer productivity extension for Microsoft Visual Studio. It automates most of what can be automated in your coding routines. It finds compiler errors, runtime errors, redundancies, and code smells right as you type, suggesting intelligent corrections for them.
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