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Re: My Emacs Productivity Tricks/Hacks

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Post by mycpuorg » Thu, Jan 23, 2020, 6:47 PM UTC

hellofunk wrote: post #3

the others I cannot live without: neo tree winner mode god mode (I use instead of evil mode) avy (visually jump to any char on the screen) undo-tree (really neat, though I don't use it as much any more)

I have tried neo-tree and undo-tree. But never really got around to using them well. Maybe, I need to be patient.

Re: My Emacs Productivity Tricks/Hacks

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Post by mycpuorg » Thu, Jan 23, 2020, 6:48 PM UTC

kwindla wrote: post #4

also tramp, for editing files on any machine you can ssh into ... https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TrampMode

A resounding YES! But Org-Mode and TRAMP are so well written about that although I have "special" setup for these in my config I felt I could not do more justice than other expert write-ups. Maybe, I should add them in a separate entry.

Re: My Emacs Productivity Tricks/Hacks

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Post by hellofunk » Thu, Jan 23, 2020, 6:55 PM UTC

tptacek wrote: post #7

hellofunk wrote: post #3

the others I cannot live without: neo tree winner mode god mode (I use instead of evil mode) avy (visually jump to any char on the screen) undo-tree (really neat, though I don't use it as much any more)

winner-mode was new to me. Thanks! The most annoying thing about Emacs for me is random windows popping up; I'm a "separate frames" person (the OS window manager does fine for me, I don't need much help from Emacs), and anything that streamlines windows is great.

then here's another just for you!

  ;;from https://github.com/m2ym/popwin-el
  ;; prevents annoying popup buffers/windows
  (require 'popwin)
  (popwin-mode 1)

Re: My Emacs Productivity Tricks/Hacks

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Post by myrloc » Thu, Jan 23, 2020, 7:01 PM UTC

use-package would be an improvement upon most of the code snippets in the blog post. Loading packages without it these days feels like a sin.

Re: My Emacs Productivity Tricks/Hacks

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Post by cjauvin » Thu, Jan 23, 2020, 7:04 PM UTC

hellofunk wrote: post #3

the others I cannot live without: neo tree winner mode god mode (I use instead of evil mode) avy (visually jump to any char on the screen) undo-tree (really neat, though I don't use it as much any more)

I have switched to treemacs a while ago (for a file/project explorer), and it's really powerful and mature, with interesting features like "workspaces", which allow you to have multiple directory views (which can be anywhere on your disk), and is managed with a convenient Org mode configuration (I wish more Emacs packages had nice Org-based configuration systems like this).

Re: My Emacs Productivity Tricks/Hacks

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Post by bitwize » Thu, Jan 23, 2020, 7:06 PM UTC

tptacek wrote: post #7

hellofunk wrote: post #3

the others I cannot live without: neo tree winner mode god mode (I use instead of evil mode) avy (visually jump to any char on the screen) undo-tree (really neat, though I don't use it as much any more)

winner-mode was new to me. Thanks! The most annoying thing about Emacs for me is random windows popping up; I'm a "separate frames" person (the OS window manager does fine for me, I don't need much help from Emacs), and anything that streamlines windows is great.

> (the OS window manager does fine for me, I don't need much help from Emacs)

Embrace the power of "and": EXWM.

Re: My Emacs Productivity Tricks/Hacks

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Post by jf » Thu, Jan 23, 2020, 7:07 PM UTC

I've used Emacs for decades and still feel like I'm barely scratching the surface.

What would really help me with articles like this one is more narrative on _why_ these particular modes are so useful. For example, it took me a long time to learn org-mode because I just didn't know what to do with it! I feel like Helm is similar, I've tried it briefly, but I'm not sure if or how it would fit into my workflow.

Re: My Emacs Productivity Tricks/Hacks

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Post by ashton314 » Thu, Jan 23, 2020, 7:11 PM UTC

jf wrote: post #17

I've used Emacs for decades and still feel like I'm barely scratching the surface. What would really help me with articles like this one is more narrative on _why_ these particular modes are so useful. For example, it took me a long time to learn org-mode because I just didn't know what to do with it! I feel like Helm is similar, I've tried it briefly, but I'm not sure if or how it would fit into my workflow.

I completely agree. I used vanilla Emacs for about a decade before finding list-packages. (I know, I know. I was really behind.) But stuff like org-mode never clicked for me. I had to sit down with the manual and read it to finally get a handle on what it is.

I'm currently drafting an essay on what makes org-mode compelling, rather than how to use it. I think I'll do the same for other tools I use.

Re: My Emacs Productivity Tricks/Hacks

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Post by komali2 » Thu, Jan 23, 2020, 7:12 PM UTC

anarchyrucks wrote: post #6

I installed Doom[0] and called it a day! [0] https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs

Looks interesting, but the main page claims it has support for a lot of languages, but according to this module page it only supports javascript, typescript, and html?

https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs/blob/develop/docs/ind...

Re: My Emacs Productivity Tricks/Hacks

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Post by NotATroll » Thu, Jan 23, 2020, 7:16 PM UTC

mycpuorg wrote: post #11

hellofunk wrote: post #3

the others I cannot live without: neo tree winner mode god mode (I use instead of evil mode) avy (visually jump to any char on the screen) undo-tree (really neat, though I don't use it as much any more)

I have tried neo-tree and undo-tree. But never really got around to using them well. Maybe, I need to be patient.

I find undo-tree to be super useful in rare occasions, thanks to undo-tree-visualizer-toggle-diff bound on d.

The quick diffs can be pretty darn helpful with complex changes.