Q: Why develop this?
A: I was amazed by spacemacs' beautiful GUI and mnemonic key bindings when using it at the first time. After that I often use spacemacs when in GUI environment. But in the terminal, vim is still definitely my first choice. Then I hope to maintain consistency in operation as much as possible in either scenario. Hence I try to reconfigure the vim based on spacemacs' architecture, especially in the key bindings and UI.
Q: How do you think of spacemacs, space-vim as well as some other vim configurations/distributions derived from spacemacs?
A: Spacemacs' popularity indeed benefits a great number of people, making remarkable contributions to the community. I truly appreciate @syl20bnr and the whole contributors' outstanding works and have learnt many lessons from spacemacs.
For space-vim, it was merely a personal vim configuration for the purpose of convenience of users using vim and spacemacs at the same time. I am glad that some people like it and give many suggestions to improve it.
If you like space-vim and are willing to polish it, feel free to give any pieces of advice. However, it doesn't mean that I am positive on spending extra time joining some organization focusing on making a spacemacs-related Vim distribution. I don't have enough time to maintain or contribute to another similar Vim distribution.
It is encouraged to fork space-vim to build up your own personalized Vim configuration. It's an open source project, you can turn it into any shape you like.
Last but not the least, space-vim and SpaceVim are two independent projects, they have no connection but the confusing names.
