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Spacemacs is a beginner friendly community configured configuration, that combines Vim style editing with Emacs extensibility and an innovative use of the Spacebar to provide the best keyboard driven workflow out of the box. The power of the Emacs lisp interpreter, makes Emacs the ultimately extensible and forgeable editor for optimizing your workflow. Besides being the most friendly editor for hackers, it provides high quality packages like the org-mode note-taking (or life management) system, an elegant and efficient git client, a versatile PDF editor and much more. Spacemacs is the paragon of the keyboard (and mouse) driven editors.
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Pro Preconfigured emacs distro
Spacemacs is just a well-configured Emacs distribution with community-sourced best in class plugins and layers selected to take the setup pain out of Emacs. Evil mode gives the Vim bindings and modes for fast editing, while Helm makes everything discoverable to make learning to be more productive simple and unintrusive.