Spacevim: What is the leader?

Created on 4 Jan 2017 · 9Comments · Source: SpaceVim/SpaceVim

Hello! I found SpaceVim this morning. I'm coming from Spacemacs and before that I was already a vim user. Wich lead me to a question, what is the leader key by default? I tried "space", "," , "\", ";".
Nothing seems to work. I tried to refined the leader key to "space" which work but I fear it could enter conflict with other command.

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mnivoliez

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Naming this project "spacevim" doesn't make much sense if the leader isn't "space" ...

justinmoon on 5 Jan 2017

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try

let mapleader=","

check out this: http://learnvimscriptthehardway.stevelosh.com/chapters/06.html @mnivoliez

wuranbo on 4 Jan 2017

@mnivoliez see :h mapleader in vim, I do not change the default leader of vim.

wsdjeg on 4 Jan 2017

I think I found the why. I have tried "\" but I'm currently using a mac. In order to put "\" you have to use ALT+SHIFT+":".

mnivoliez on 4 Jan 2017

the default leader should be \. now what do you want to do. I think I can help you.

wsdjeg on 4 Jan 2017

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Naming this project "spacevim" doesn't make much sense if the leader isn't "space" ...

justinmoon on 5 Jan 2017

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spacevim do not means using space in vim. It means provide more space for vim, And you can use vim do any thing you like.

Please see :h leader in vim. closing

wsdjeg on 5 Jan 2017

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Sure, but then it's no longer "like spacemacs, but for vim". It's a vim distribution co-opting the spacemacs name.

justinmoon on 5 Jan 2017

@superquest what is spacemacs? it is layer based useage of emacs. and now SpaceVim is modular configuration for vim. so what is the differences? you mean I must has same file structure as spacemacs? use layers and use + before directory for each modular?

I do not think it is good idea, what I like about spacemacs is just the modular config or layers config, user only need load the layers(modes) he want.

thanks for feedback, let's stop this useless argument. we should spend more time to help user who need vim.

wsdjeg on 5 Jan 2017

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i think it might be better to have a place to document these info in a more organized way

* [SPC] 

* <Leader> - \ - :help mapleader 

* <LocalLeader> - \ - :help maplocalleader

* s - window leader :SPDebuginfo!
https://spacevim.org/documentation/#vim-compatible-mode
The s key does replace cursor char, but in SpaceVim it is the Window key bindings specific leader key by default (which can be set on another key binding in dotfile). If you still prefer the origin function of s, you can use an empty string to disable this feature.