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Spacemacs vs Vundle: 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 Vundle? The plug-in manager for Vim. Vundle is short for Vim bundle and is a Vim plugin manager.
Spacemacs and Vundle 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, Vundle provides the following key features:
- keep track of and configure your plugins right in the .vimrc
- install configured plugins (a.k.a. scripts/bundle)
- update configured plugins
Spacemacs and Vundle are both open source tools. Vundle with 20K GitHub stars and 2.28K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Spacemacs with 18.1K GitHub stars and 4.45K GitHub forks.
Pros of Spacemacs
- Advanced support for Vim key bindings14
- Discoverability12
- Easy setup10
- Never have to touch the mouse10
- Community-driven configuration7
- Cross-platform7
- Documentation6
- Emacs5
- Fast-paced development4
- Evil4
- Nice UI4
- Git Integration2
- Autocompletion1