Spacemacs setup on mac

Question

Long time vim user, finally decided to try emacs for orgmode. As usual, lost in configuration and found out about spacemacs.

Excited to try, unfortunately after all the attempts I still can't get couple of things.

• The UI doesn't look correct (as per their home page). I am not sure what is gone wrong. (I have tried in terminal as well as iterm2)
• Inline image preview (C-x C-c C-v) is not working in orgmode/emacs. The same issue with vanila homebrew emacs as well.

I have followed the steps: https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs#macos

Answer 1

Stupid me, it is working as expected. Spacemacs looks like the screenshot from their site and images in my org files show up inline :-)

You are expected to open the application in GUI mode (from /Application like any other app) and I was trying to do in a terminal.