I didn't want to...but I'm really liking Spacemacs. I didn't want it to be a good solution, but it really is.
@puffyrox I'm a fairly dedicated vim user, so the integration of evil-mode is what drew me in. I'm not a power user of either by any stretch but it has so far been much easier to discover features than regular emacs for me, and is the right level of abstraction for my purposes. YMMV.
@willhopkins does it work well in Windows 10 WSL?
I had many problems with it installed normally on Windows
@jellydiver can't say. I haven't run Windows in ages (since 7 was the new hotness). let me know if you try it out!
@willhopkins sure, just installing Emacs and cloning everything
@willhopkins can't say it's out off the box experience. Right now it doesn't even start properly. Need to google solution for that.
@jellydiver hm, that's no good. I was able to accept the defaults and it was good to go, though I didn't realize at first it would run whenever I run emacs now so I couldn't find a spacemacs executable.
@willhopkins in WSL it just crashes after it loads Emacs. Clean version seems to work.
@jellydiver gross 😞 sorry to hear that
@willhopkins I've been avoiding it with that same "fear"
@bmallred for my purposes it's working nicely. I don't know if the RSI claims are just a placebo but I'm willing to try.
@willhopkins That's the second reference to Spacemacs I've seen on here. I think I'll need to read a review of what it adds over Emacs.