@jr0cket is this the master branch or develop?

develop branch.

I think something is wrong with my installation. I think I try to replace my .emacs.d and my .spacemacs with a fresh copy

will report

I also have a problem with exporting latex-> pdf from org, because it doesn’t find pdflatex on its path

(sorry for being newbie-like confused, I have a strong will to learn 🙂

How are you turning autocomplete on and off? I have autocomplete as a layer in my .spacemacs file. I assume that it's on automatically for all modes (something I only assumed and never checked). Do you have any of your own yasnippets defined? Just wondering if any of them could be a problem (I seems unlikely though).

I comment it in and out in .spacemacs

I have not created any snippets so far

It could be the version of Emacs. I tried on Emacs 27. I can try on Emacs 26.3. What is your version

(I think layer auto-completion was commented put, when I opened develop the first time, but I’m not sure)

emacs 26.3

this was the official Mac build i got from https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

I could try a fresh install of everything

((where would I find emacs 27?)

it says “Emacs 26.3 - Latest release Released Aug 28, 2019”

I will try to install v27

Tried on 26.3 and it works just fine there too

I am thinking it might be something in your .Spacemacs file, or a package that didn't download correctly.

ok, strange … I will install everything new and see …. maybe some bonehead newbie thing going on here

Did you try to export one of my org files from the GitHub repository I shared?

thanks for your time - really appreciated!!

I can try that

It could be the org file itself. The January 2019 org file works okay for me

If not. I suggest using SPC f e D to compare your .spacemacs file with the current template. It launches ediff and you can press n to step through all the differences. Press b copy from the template into your own .spacemacs file, unless you know there is something you want to keep (layers, user-config)

ah! something new to learn .. will try!

That’s a great tool

the main difference is, that I added three layers under dotspacemacs-configuration-layers

javascript, html, clojure

maybe this was an beginner’s error

Adding layers is what you should be doing to add specific features to Spacemacs. This section of the ,spacemacs file usually has more than the template. Also the dotspacemacs/user-config can have a lot of differences as you add your own configuration.

I learned, that for the beginner it’s safer just to make a file with a proper ending such as .html and let Spacemacs decide waht to install .. great!

Here is my .Spacemacs config https://github.com/practicalli/spacemacs-config/blob/master/.spacemacs.d/init.el as an example

Thanks: something to learn from.

ah: clj-kondo

Yes, Spacemacs will add the layer for you. This is easy. I usually restart Emacs after adding a layer just to ensure everything is installed.

There is also the online guide if you are doing Clojure development https://practicalli.github.io/spacemacs/

ja, Clojure and org were the main motivations to come here