The best editor is neither Emacs nor Vim, it's Emacs and Vim (github.com)

I recently switched to Spacemacs and I'm really enjoying it. If you're a Vim user who wants to try Emacs, or an Emacs user who wants to work faster I recommend trying it.

Pardon my ignorance but just running `git clone --recursive http://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs ~/.emacs.d` would install it? Wouldn't I need a working Emacs installation first? If yes, which one should I install for a Mac?

can anyone teach me how to add erlang-elixir layer to dotspacemacs-configuration-layers list in ~/.spacemacs

How difficult is it to use my vim plugins and dot-files?

This thing is really great. Been playing around with it for a few days and threw away my old .emacs. It's that good.

One pro is that it will make plenty of excellent emacs packages easily discoverable.