I have been trying to use spacemacs on Antergos (Arch Derivative) but when I start emacs it doesn't load spacemacs. it used to work before just fine but not anymore. I'm also very new to emacs so I would appreciate some guidance.
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1How are you starting Emacs, how did you install spacemacs, etc.– kiniNov 27, 2016 at 9:55
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I've started Emacs both normally and in the terminal. I installed both Emacs and Spacemacs from the arch package repository using yaourt if that helps.– 1028Nov 27, 2016 at 13:57
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I'm confused, as I don't see spacemacs on the AUR website... Where is spacemacs actually installed on your system?– kiniNov 27, 2016 at 17:09
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It was in the AUR website last night. It seems that they took the package down. This is not the first time it's been taken down. I believe spacemacs is installed in my home directory in the .emacs folder.– 1028Nov 27, 2016 at 19:30
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I would suggest first installing emacs using pacman:
pacman -Sy emacs
and then installing spacemacs using git:
git clone https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs ~/.emacs.d
OR your can use the develop version of spacemacs which is more current and will have more feataures:
git clone -b develop https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs ~/.emacs.d
I'm not sure how yaourt installs spacemacs; I would use the suggested method of installing spacemacs as described in the documentation.
What worked for me is that I deleted the entire .emacs.d directory and deleted the .spacemacs file in my home directory since I was reinstalling spacemacs. For some odd reason the .spacemacs file wasn't letting Spacemacs reinstall. After that the process that @haff mentions works perfectly fine.
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you can accept the answer by haff and put this answer as a comment to it.– syl20bnrDec 10, 2016 at 20:30