Emacs tips and tricks

[GekkoP]

I am not tinkering with my configuration much these days (what a liar), but one package that has made things simpler and better for me is this: https://github.com/oantolin/orderless

Without pulling in heavy dependencies such as Helm or Ivy, this is the perfect way to move around into my project and files. Combine it with selectrum and consult, or the built-in icomplete if you rock that hard, and you're good to go.

[GekkoP]

https://www.manueluberti.eu/emacs/2021/ ... e-package/

Back to the roots? Oh yeah.

[GekkoP]

This has been really useful lately: https://github.com/bdarcus/bibtex-actions

[GekkoP]

https://www.manueluberti.eu/emacs/2021/ ... -vertical/

No need for external packages now, which in my opinion is always a plus.

[GekkoP]

2296 lines of code in my Emacs setup, 1696 if you leave blanks and comments out. (I used scc to get the totals, if you are wondering how I got them)

Long gone are the days where I was hitting 5000 and beyond and feeling like the Emacs mastermind.

[GekkoP]

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manuel@hathaway:~/.emacs.d$ scc
───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Language                 Files     Lines   Blanks  Comments     Code Complexity
───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Emacs Lisp                   6      1464      339       198      927          5
Makefile                     1        50       17         8       25          0
gitignore                    1        18        2         3       13          0
───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Total                        8      1532      358       209      965          5
───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Estimated Cost to Develop (organic) $26,022
Estimated Schedule Effort (organic) 3.437531 months
Estimated People Required (organic) 0.672540
───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Processed 42030 bytes, 0.042 megabytes (SI)
───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

Damn, this is getting expensive, but it looks like little more than half of me is enough to work on it at least.

[GekkoP]

I decided to stop depending on Rust tools: https://www.manueluberti.eu/emacs/2021/ ... -git-grep/

grep and git grep are enough.

[wuxmedia]

^ as someone who still logs into random ubuntu boxes, niceties and special binaries are not really, for me, required learning :D

I did compile curl (for fancy DNS stuff) the other day... managed to half pooch the installed version, so there's that :D

[GekkoP]

Patching Emacs feels good: https://www.manueluberti.eu/emacs/2022/ ... e-buffers/

[GekkoP]

I decided to stop depending on Rust tools: https://www.manueluberti.eu/emacs/2021/ ... -git-grep/

grep and git grep are enough.

I actually decided that in the whole ripgrep vs ugrep debate, I prefer ugrep, so I added support for it into Emacs: https://manueluberti.eu/emacs/2022/08/07/emacs-ugrep/

[And to make a geek proud, you'll find me in the ugrep README as well.]