Spacemacs

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Spacemacs
Original author(s) Sylvain Benner [1]
Developer(s) Sylvain Benner and many others [2]
Initial release30 October 2014;10 years ago (2014-10-30)
Repository
Written in Emacs Lisp
Operating system Unix, Linux, Windows NT, macOS
Available inEnglish (by default)
Type Text editor
License GPL-3.0-or-later [3] [4] [5]
Website www.spacemacs.org

Spacemacs is a configuration framework for GNU Emacs. [6] It can take advantage of all of GNU Emacs' features, including both graphical and command-line user interfaces, and being executable under X Window System and within a Unix shell terminal. [7] It is free and open-source software (FOSS) released under the GPL-3.0-or-later license. [3] [4] [5]

Contents

Spacemacs consists mainly of configuration files, pre-defined internal commands, and configurations for various plug-ins (called 'packages'). [8] [9] [10] It features a novel mnemonic key binding design (e.g., commands for file manipulation often start with "f",) which attempts to improve ergonomics (and avoid emacs pinky), a system for adding or excluding pre-configured features called 'layers', and includes verbose software documentation. It has three user-selectable input modes: Emacs mode, Vim mode (based on the evil Emacs package for Vim emulation), and Hybrid mode.

Spacemacs has a light and dark theme that are the fifth most downloaded emacs theme as of 2025 based on MELPA downloads. [11]

As of 2021, its repository on GitHub has been starred over 21,100 times and has over 11,300 commits. [12]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Spacemacs: Emacs advanced Kit focused on Evil". www.spacemacs.org.
  2. ↑ Contributors to Spacemacs, GitHub
  3. 1 2 Benner, Sylvain. "License". Github.com.
  4. 1 2 "Apply GPLv3 terms explicitly to all elisp files". GitHub . 2021-03-26.
  5. 1 2 "Add missing GPLv3 headers to various files". GitHub . 2021-04-09.
  6. ↑ Nedrich, Matt (2016-08-30). "An Introduction to Spacemacs".
  7. ↑ Erickson, Alejandro (2016-07-11). "Emacs to Evil to Spacemacs, A Journey". Archived from the original on 2018-09-03. Retrieved 2017-01-20.
  8. ↑ Benner, Sylvain (2016-10-03). "Frequently Asked Questions".
  9. ↑ C.H., Swaroop (2015-05-22). "Tech: Using Spacemacs". Archived from the original on 2018-10-31. Retrieved 2017-01-20.
  10. ↑ McCowan, Ian (2014-04-07). "A Vimmer's Emacs Prerequisites".
  11. ↑ "Emacs Themes: Top Themes". 2025-04-13.
  12. ↑ spacemacs on GitHub
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