When comparing CreaWriter vs Spacemacs, the Slant community recommends Spacemacs for most people. In the question“What are the best distraction-free word processors?” Spacemacs is ranked 9th while CreaWriter is ranked 11th. The most important reason people chose Spacemacs is:
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.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Allows creating ambiance
CreaWriter's main selling point is the fact that it adds atmosphere to its workspace. By default there's a background with a sunset over water and a sound of trickling water, but the background and sound can be changed to anything to create the desired atmosphere.
Along with background and sound, CreaWriter has options for customizing transparency, font size, family and color, status bar information and visibility, etc.
Pro A free edition is available
If you just want to test the software out or don't need the extra features, a free version is available for download on the official site. A paid version with added functionality is available to donors (5 EUR and up).
Pro Exports to txt, rtf and doc
When saving a file, CreaWriter does not offer any options, but manually adding an extension will allow exporting to txt, rtf and doc formats.
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.
Pro VIM Keybindings with EMACS ecosystem
EMACS ecosystem and language support is best in show. The EMACS is a great IDE that was in search of a good text editor. Spacemacs makes EMACS have a good text editor.
Cons
Con Windows only
Con The free version is somewhat limited
The paid version adds useful feature such as word count, text styles (bold, italic, underlined), hotkeys, autosaves, ambient sound volume and customization options such as configurable text color, text areas's color, size, position and transparency, and adjustable ambient sound volume.
Con Emacs is slow
Emacs is single threaded which means that if you enable all the great features you might be used to from Vim, it will run noticeably slower which can be quite frustrating at times. There are efforts at a concurrent Emacs, but they don't seem to be going anywhere.