Try SpaceVim without clobbering your existing Vim configuration

Patrick B — Sun, 12 Jun 2022 06:07:32 +0000

This is straight from the SpaceVim FAQs, but it's a little buried there if you're not looking for it.

It's entirely possible to try or use SpaceVim without disrupting your existing Vim configuration. This assumes a working bash or zsh shell environment and vim installed.

In just 2 quick steps:

1) Clone the SpaceVim repository:

   git clone https://github.com/SpaceVim/SpaceVim.git ~/.SpaceVim

2) Create svim as an alias in your .bashrc or .zshrc file:

   alias svim='vim -u ~/.SpaceVim/vimrc'

After re-initializing your shell environment, you should simply be able to use svim on the command line to enable a fully-functional SpaceVim IDE.

SpaceVim is very customizable. You're welcome to checkout/use/adapt my own customization.

Q: Can it be better?
A: You bet! Use NeoVim instead of Vim. You'll get all the goodness of Vim and all the coding love of NeoVim. Give it a go!

What pet projects are you working on, just for fun?

Patrick B — Sun, 22 May 2022 16:17:02 +0000

Could be anything, even non-technical.

I like to tinker with bicycles (I've built and rebuilt a few over the years), and make sourdough pizza.

I recently created a Wordle Helper app using Node & React.

And I created a JSON-formatted version of the Apollo 13 air-to-ground transcript (it just seemed like an interesting thing to do).

What are you working on?

Forem: Patrick B

Try SpaceVim without clobbering your existing Vim configuration

What pet projects are you working on, just for fun?