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Try http://spacemacs.org with Evil mode - vi keybindings, all the power of emacs, and emacs pre-configured to work well out of the box.

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spacemacs is all of the power of vim and emacs with all of the complexity of vim and emacs. Having said that, it's what I'm using for writing code now.

I was using spacemacs, but I didn't know emacs and lisp well enough to solve problems when I had them, and getting help was hard.

Now I'm back to using plain old emacs, and I'm hoping I can learn from spacemacs to make emacs better by contributing back to it.

You can get help in the spacemacs gitter chat... there is usually someone around that can help you out for most things.

https://gitter.im/syl20bnr/spacemacs

In my experience, it was kind of hard to get someone to reply back to me when I had a problem.

I can be for some advanced things. it's still emacs under the hood though so emacs resources are valid sources of information. That said, it's not busy during the weekend usually and is more active during US business hours.

Plus it's slow and riddled with bugs and good luck getting a PR accepted. I love it.

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