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by gameswithgo 2149 days ago
I went through the install process on windows. First it said I need to install gvim first. So I did that. then set the path to gvim.exe

Then I was able to install it, and it said just start gvim and plugins will install automatically. So I start gvim and nothing happens. Looks like normal gvim.

I feel like these sorts of experiences are always what happen when using kinda linuxy tools. Compare to installing vscode where it just works. But then is an inefficient electron/javascript program that just works. Would be nice to have the best of both worlds!

EDIT: allow me to be the change a little bit, if you install on windows, the fix: https://github.com/SpaceVim/SpaceVim/issues/3250

EDIT2: after the fix "E121: Undefined variable: g:_spacevim_if_lua" sigh

2 comments

> I feel like these sorts of experiences are always what happen when using kinda linuxy tools. Compare to installing vscode where it just works.

Spacevim is not an editor, that would be vim/gvim, which works fine as you said yourself. Spacevim is a collection of configurations, basically a plugin, and those are working on VS Code as good or bad as on any other editor.

we recommend to use neovim instead.