How how to change spacemacs from helm to ivy?

Question

During the initial setup spacemacs asked, "What type of completion framework do you want?" and I selected "helm".

Now I want to use ivy instead. How to change spacemacs from helm to ivy? There are 16 occurrences of "helm" in my ~/.spacemacs file.

I added "spacemacs-ivy" at top of ~/.spacemacs file and restarted, but that didn't work as described in https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/407q2c/ivy_is_now_available_in_spacemacs/ . On restart emacs said "Spacemacs encountered an error while loading your '.spacemacs' file."

Golem

Answer 1

If there is no .spacemacs file, Spacemacs asks some questions and creates a new .spacemacs file.

I reinstalled spacemacs by deleting .spacemacs file and then restarting emacs. I answered the questions like this:

What is your preferred editing style? vim
What distribution of spacemacs would you like to start with? spacemacs
What type of completion framework do you want? ivy

Now ivy is installed.

Golem

Answer 2

I just put ivy in dotspacemacs-configuration-layers along with other layer names in configuration file and everything seems to work.

And I don't know if anything should be put at the "top" of .spacemacs.

Henden