Too afraid to ask: How you do insert a space in spacemacs

8 months ago by tetris11 to c/emacs

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

django 6 points 8 months ago

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.

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tetris11 3 points 8 months ago

Ohh. Well that sounds... interesting.... each to their own, I guess

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django 2 points 8 months ago

I have grown to like it so much, that I find myself hitting the spacebar when I am in command mode in vim.

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tetris11 4 points 8 months ago

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

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verdigris 3 points 8 months ago

I mean space is the most common leader key, most people with customized/plugin-heavy vim/nvim setups are using space exactly like this.

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thain 2 points a month ago

spacemacs ships with evil mode (which gives vim binds) by default, so if you input a space in editing mode it's just a space, and in normal mode it's the leader for chords.

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