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The install guide:

    vim sh mv ~/.vimrc ~/.vimrc_bak mv ~/.vim ~/.vim_bak git clone https://github.com/SpaceVim/SpaceVim.git ~/.vim
    nvim sh git clone https://github.com/SpaceVim/SpaceVim.git ~/.config/nvim
Why do people always expect the average joe user to understand this? What do I do with this? Do I run this in the terminal? Then what? First line opens Vim and it opens 11 files. Now what? This seems like the average explanation that works for the person who writes it, but is useless unless you know this already.


   for vim do: sh mv ~/.vimrc ~/.vimrc_bak mv ~/.vim ~/.vim_bak git clone https://github.com/SpaceVim/SpaceVim.git ~/.vim
   for nvim do: sh git clone https://github.com/SpaceVim/SpaceVim.git ~/.config/nvim
I'm guessing markdown fail.


Particularly annoying given that Vim 8 (finally!) has a perfectly fine packaging system.


Check their github page, there's a (or 2) different install instruction(s).




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