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Doom Emacs? What happened to Spacemacs? In my previous post last year … Wow! I’ve really been neglecting this blogging thing, haven’t I? … I sung the praises for Spacemacs (an Emacs distrubution with pre-configured layers). I’ve since discovered Doom Emacs and have recently made the switch to it. For two reasons mainly: Speed. Doom Emacs is fast! Super Fast! (It has some nice lazy loading) Configuration. Spacemacs did it a lot of magic via its layers configs....

What is Spacemacs I’ve been a pure Vim user for many years before I stumbled on Spacemacs. So what is it? Spacemacs is a community driven distribution of Emacs. The tagline is The best editor is neither Emacs nor Vim, it's Emacs and Vim!. It’s pretty much Emacs with a well structured configuration system (via something called “Layers”). You can choose to use Vim like keybindings (or what Emacs people call evil)....