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Spacemacs vs pathogen.vim: What are the differences?
What is Spacemacs? Emacs advanced Kit focused on Evil: The best editor is neither Emacs nor Vim, it's Emacs *and Vim!*. Since version 0.101.0 and later Spacemacs totally abolishes the frontiers between Vim and Emacs. The user can now choose his/her preferred editing style and enjoy all the Spacemacs features Even better, it is possible to dynamically switch between the two styles seamlessly which makes it possible for programmers with different styles to do seat pair programming using the same editor..
What is pathogen.vim? pathogen.vim: manage your runtimepath. Manage your 'runtimepath' with ease. In practical terms, pathogen.vim makes it super easy to install plugins and runtime files in their own private directories.
Spacemacs and pathogen.vim can be categorized as "Tools for Text Editors" tools.
Spacemacs and pathogen.vim are both open source tools. Spacemacs with 18.1K GitHub stars and 4.45K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than pathogen.vim with 10.9K GitHub stars and 1.17K GitHub forks.
Pros of Spacemacs
- Advanced support for Vim key bindings14
- Discoverability12
- Easy setup10
- Never have to touch the mouse10
- Community-driven configuration7
- Cross-platform7
- Documentation6
- Emacs5
- Fast-paced development4
- Evil4
- Nice UI4
- Git Integration2
- Autocompletion1
Pros of pathogen.vim
- It fits the posix-y model of path manipulation2
