I’ve been reading through their docs[0] and FAQs[1] but cannot for the life of me understand how they can use SPC as a chord prefix, and also just type normal sentences on a keyboard.
I don’t want to try it, but I do want to know.
0: https://www.spacemacs.org/doc/QUICK_START.html
1: https://www.spacemacs.org/doc/FAQ.html#how-do-i
It uses Evil-mode, which emulates vim. Space is only inserted as text, when you are in insert mode, otherwise it is used as leader key. You leave insert mode by pressing ESC and you enter it by pressing i.
Ohh. Well that sounds… interesting… each to their own, I guess
I have grown to like it so much, that I find myself hitting the spacebar when I am in command mode in vim.
It’s amazing what bindings you get used to. My desktop has Win+E to launch Emacs, and Win+T for a terminal, and any machine that I work on that isn’t my desktop, gets a confusing treatment of these two angry chords
I mean space is the most common leader key, most people with customized/plugin-heavy vim/nvim setups are using space exactly like this.