Uninstall Spacemacs

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rev picture rev · Aug 30, 2016 · Viewed 9.1k times · Source

I'm trying to install Emacs via Homebrew. Having done this and aliased to my apps folder, I found that when I ran Emacs it came up Spacemacs. I did them remember the system had Spacemacs installed a few years ago. So, I uninstalled Emacs, removed the emacs folders. Now, Homebrew shows no installation of Emacs. However, when I run emacs in the terminal, I still get Spacemacs.

How do I completely remove Spacemacs so I can install "vanilla" Emacs?

I thought I'd look at where Spacemacs is installed and did a "whereis emacs", but nothing but the prompt was returned.

Answer

Yuri Steinschreiber picture Yuri Steinschreiber · Aug 30, 2016

Remove or rename ~/emacs.d folder. Spacemacs is not a different emacs, it's a different way of initializing emacs. The initialization files are in ~/emacs.d.

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