Emacs packages

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Many of these packages are vailable in Doom emacs, which use vertico, consult, etc.

Completion framework §

ivy §

Auto completion framework

counsel §

vertico §

Replaced ivy-mode. When combined with orderless, it can perform search regardless of the text location.

File and full text search §

consult-org-roam §

Full text search using grep. Note that ripgrep and grep is conflicted with ivy-mode and helm-mode for some reason.

helm-org-rifle §

Full text search with rich interface. Very slow though.

Swiper §

Better search in current buffer to replace isearch.

org-roam-backlink-collections §

Self-defined function to add all backlink to current node.

orderless §

Can be combined with vertico to disregard the text sequence

helm §

helm-find-files §

replace the default C-x C-f

helm-M-x §

replace default M-x

helm mode completion at point §

excellent auto completion for org-roam

Popup layout of helm §

(use-package helm :custom ((helm-display-function #‘helm-display-buffer-in-own-frame) (helm-display-buffer-reuse-frame t) (helm-use-undecorated-frame-option t)))

helm-do-grep-ag §

Great full text search with minimal UI and fast speed. It only searchs in the current directory though. Use standard grep to specify e.g. foo\ mod to include space. It didn’t not show the file path, only the file name

helm-ag §

The silver searcher (enchanced of helm-do-grep-ag) It displays the file path, unlike the former.

helm-ag §

Search in the current directory. Use C-u to specify the directory. Do not need to use \ to escape space. Do not support follow mode.

helm-do-ag §

Need to specify the directory. The search function works the same as helm-do-grep-ag. Support follow mode.

Edit §

org-transclusion §

Evil-snipe §

A super quick way to move horizontally by searching characters. https://youtu.be/ywRExNOyybY?si=mGKTZ9ox246-8WLY

File management §

magit §

A git manager.

Mail §

mu4e §

Set up mu4e based on tutorials: https://macowners.club/posts/email-emacs-mu4e-macos/#setup-mu4e-in-emacs https://www.erichgrunewald.com/posts/setting-up-gmail-in-doom-emacs-using-mbsync-and-mu4e/ System crafter’s YT Emacs Mail series

Multiple account §

Add a .noindex to Trash or Spam file to avoid indexing and count them to Unread touch ~/Maildir/Gmail/[Gmail].Trash/.noindex && mu index Source: https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/21038/mu4e-bookmarks-how-to-hide-messages-for-folders-like-trash-and-spam

Spell check §

1. Add (:spell +flycheck) in doom emacs’ Inuit.Eli
2. Run brew install aspell
3. Create an ispell .pws file:

   mkdir -p ~/.emacs.d/.local/etc/ispell && touch ~/.emacs.d/.local/etc/ispell/.pws

4. Go to the .pws file, and put personal_ws-1.1 en 0 at the beginning
5. In config.el, add the following:

   setq ispell-personal-dictionary ~/.emacs.d/.local/etc/ispell/.pws"

6. In Emacs, use M-x ispell-change-dictionary and change to the desired language (I use en_CA)
7. Few different ways to use it:
   • Use ispell to go through spell check interactively
   • z t to check a word
   • C ; to correct a word. Type it again to choose the next option from correction list.

org-roam-dblocks §

Link:

elfeed §

Clean up elfeed-db §

1. Run elfeed-db-unload
2. Delete everything in elfeed-db-directory

Source: https://github.com/skeeto/elfeed/issues/147