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Too afraid to ask: How you do insert a space in spacemacs (feddit.uk)

submitted 2 months ago by tetris11@feddit.uk to c/emacs@lemmy.ml

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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

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[–] django@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 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

[–] verdigris@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 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.