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For anyone unsure if they would like spacemacs from the "Vi" camp, consider spacemacs as a super-set of Vi but now imagine that you have modal-control in "normal" mode of quite a large bit of user-interface and applications without degrading to an Ex-style "command line" (where you type commands for changing editor state like ':set number' or ':set nonumber')---since spacemacs displays the available keys with help at each level, you won't have to leave the editor to "lookup" a command, typing the commands is one and the same. Just considering this I learned that there is a SPC t "layer" (layer is spacemacs terminology for a configuration between the keyboard and some feature) for toggling numbering, whitespace, syntax checking and indentation guides.

Using spacemacs in day-to-day use is much easier for newcomers than learning Vim or Emacs alone. If you assumed just three keys (0-9A-Za-z) after the leader (SPC) you can navigate over 195K commands. In practice spacemacs is navigating more than that with symbols like quotes, brackets, commas and so on.