I am seriously contemplating to write an article with the title: "How Alt-m changed my world"
@skryking that magnificant combination puts Emacs in command mode (as far as I have understood the FM - it surely did something as something finally has happened as expected).
So now I can finally start looking how to open some file to edit and then save it (or even more spooky operation - ignore the changes).
@skryking
So far It took me only 5 days to figure this out with a lot of RTFM and when this did not render anything then a lot of help of experienced and kind developers of spacemacs on github (who read frustrated users posts)
I wandered how world would look like if I had to spend all this activity to use my first internet browser (that was once upon a time. I believe some 1994, and it was called Mosaic)