HOWTOs.md

Compilation of quick HOW-TOs for Spacemacs

Table of Contents

• Compilation of quick HOW-TOs for Spacemacs
  • Disable a package completely
  • Disable a package only for a specific major-mode
  • Disable company for a specific major-mode

Disable a package completely

To completely disable a package and effectively uninstalling it even if it is part of your used layers, look for the variable dotspacemacs-excluded-packages in your dotfile and add the package name to it:

dotspacemacs-excluded-packages '(package1 package2 ...)

Disable a package only for a specific major-mode

This is done by removing the hook added by Spacemacs. For example to remove flycheck support in python buffers, look for the function dotspacemacs/config in your dotfile and add the following code:

(remove-hook 'python-mode-hook 'flycheck-mode)

Hint to know the name of the major-mode of the current buffer press: SPC h d v major-mode RET

Disable company for a specific major-mode

It may be handy to disable company for a given mode if you plan on configuring auto-complete instead. On easy way to do it is to use the macro spacemacs|disable-company in the function dotspacemacs/config of your dotfile. The following snippet disables company for python-mode:

(spacemacs|disable-company python-mode)