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Quick start guide

If you haven’t seen SpaceVim at all yet, the first thing you should read is this guide. It will give you a good idea of what SpaceVim is like, show you how to install it, how to config it, and explain its features.


At a minimum, SpaceVim requires git and curl to be installed. Both tools are needed for downloading plugins and fonts.

If you are using Vim/Neovim in terminal, you also need to set the font of your terminal.

Linux and macOS

curl -sLf | bash

After SpaceVim being installed, launch vim and SpaceVim will automatically install plugins.

For more info about the install script, please check:

curl -sLf | bash -s -- -h

If you got a vimproc error like [vimproc] vimproc's DLL: "~/.cache/vimfiles/vimproc.vim/lib/" is not found. Please read :help vimproc and make it, you may need to install make (from build-essential) and a C compilator (like gcc) to build the dll (see issue #435 and #544).


The easiest way is to download install.cmd and run it as administrator, or install SpaceVim manually.

Run in docker

docker pull spacevim/spacevim
docker run -it --rm spacevim/spacevim nvim

You can also load local config:

docker run -it -v ~/.SpaceVim.d:/home/spacevim/.SpaceVim.d --rm spacevim/spacevim nvim


The default configuration file of SpaceVim is ~/.SpaceVim.d/init.toml. This is an example for basic usage of SpaceVim. For more info, please checkout SpaceVim documentation.

# This is a basic configuration example for SpaceVim

# All SpaceVim options are below [options] snippet
    # set spacevim theme. by default colorscheme layer is not loaded,
    # if you want to use more colorscheme, please load the colorscheme
    # layer, the value of this option is a string.
    colorscheme = "gruvbox"
    colorscheme_bg = "dark"
    # Disable guicolors in basic mode, many terminal do not support 24bit
    # true colors, the type of the value is boolean, true or false.
    enable_guicolors = true
    # Disable statusline separator, if you want to use other value, please
    # install nerd fonts
    statusline_separator = "nil"
    statusline_separator = "bar"
    buffer_index_type = 4
    # Display file type icon on the tabline, If you do not have nerd fonts
    # installed, please change the value to false
    enable_tabline_filetype_icon = true
    # Display current mode text on statusline, by default It is disabled,
    # only color will be changed when switch modes.
    enable_statusline_mode = false

# Enable autocomplete layer
    name = "autocomplete"
    auto-completion-tab-key-behavior = "cycle"

    name = "shell"
    default_position = "top"
    default_height = 30

# This is an example for adding custom plugins lilydjwg/colorizer
    name = "lilydjwg/colorizer"
    merged = false

Online tutor

This is a list of online tutor for using SpaceVim as general IDE and programming language support:

A list of guide for programming language support:

Learning SpaceVim

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