Add How-to for running Spacemacs w/o modifying existing config
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- [[Prevent the visual selection overriding my system clipboard?][Prevent the visual selection overriding my system clipboard?]]
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- [[Make spell-checking support curly quotes (or any other character)?][Make spell-checking support curly quotes (or any other character)?]]
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- [[Use Spacemacs as the =$EDITOR= for git commits?][Use Spacemacs as the =$EDITOR= for git commits?]]
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- [[Try Spacemacs without modifying my existing Emacs configuration?][Try Spacemacs without modifying my existing Emacs configuration?]]
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- [[Windows][Windows]]
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- [[Why do the fonts look crappy on Windows?][Why do the fonts look crappy on Windows?]]
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- [[Why is there no Spacemacs logo in the startup buffer?][Why is there no Spacemacs logo in the startup buffer?]]
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(global-git-commit-mode t)
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#+end_src
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** Try Spacemacs without modifying my existing Emacs configuration?
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Emacs' ability to use any directory as the home for launching it allows us to
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try out Spacemacs (or any other Emacs configuration we desire) without having to go
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through the trouble of backing up our =~/.emacs.d= directory and then cloning the new
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configuration. This can be achieved easily using the following steps:
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#+BEGIN_SRC shell
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mkdir ~/spacemacs
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git clone git@github.com:syl20bnr/spacemacs.git ~/spacemacs/.emacs.d
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HOME=~/spacemacs emacs
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#+END_SRC
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If you're on Fish shell, you will need to modify the last command to: =env HOME=$HOME/spacemacs emacs=
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* Windows
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** Why do the fonts look crappy on Windows?
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You can install [[https://code.google.com/p/mactype/][MacType]] on Windows to get very nice looking fonts. It is
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