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Magit Magit is a complete text-based user interface to Git. It fills the glaring gap between the Git command-line interface and various GUIs, letting you perform trivial as well as elaborate version control tasks with just a couple of mnemonic key presses. Magit looks like a prettified version of what you get after running a few Git commands but in Magit every bit of visible information is also actionable to an extent that goes far beyond what any Git GUI provides and it takes care of automatically refreshing this output when it becomes outdated....

Eshell It is a shell written in Emacs Lisp. Eshell is both a command shell and an Emacs Lisp REPL (Read Eval Print Loop), as a result, you can invoke commands in two different ways: command form or in Lisp form. As always, the official documentation provides you with more than enough information on Eshell. Figure 1: Eshell Command form Command form looks much the same as in other shells. A command consists of arguments separated by spaces; the first argument is the command to run, with any subsequent arguments being passed to that command....

Why? Figure 1: Default Emacs UI For those who prefer a universal theme in their destop, the default Emacs interface is kind of ugly. Though there are built-in themes included, to be fair the options are limited. Figure 2: emacs wombat theme, one of the better ones Doom When I first tried Emacs, Doomemacs was my first choice. It’s kind of a “curated default configurations”. Figure 3: doom emacs, image from their github page...

Evil is an extensible vi layer for Emacs. It emulates the main features of Vim, and provides facilities for writing custom extensions. Installing Add Melpa 1 2 (add-to-list 'package-archives '("melpa" . "https://melpa.org/packages/")) Code Snippet 1: melpa with use-package 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 (use-package evil :ensure :preface (customize-set-variable 'evil-want-keybinding nil) ;; if using `evil-collection' (customize-set-variable 'evil-want-integration t) ;; if using `evil-collection' (customize-set-variable 'evil-undo-system 'undo-redo) (customize-set-variable 'evil-want-C-u-scroll t) ;; move universal arg to <leader> u (customize-set-variable 'evil-want-C-u-delete t) ;; delete back to indentation in insert state (customize-set-variable 'evil-want-C-g-bindings t) :config (evil-mode 1) ;; disable this when using `general....

About general.el provides a more convenient method for binding keys in emacs (for both evil and non-evil users). Like use-package, which provides a convenient, unified interface for managing packages, general.el is intended to provide a convenient, unified interface for key definitions. While this package does implement some completely new functionality (such as the ability to make vim-style keybindings under non-prefix keys with an optional timeout), its primary purpose is to build on existing functionality to make key definition more clear and concise....

Figure 1: Default Emacs The default Emacs is kinda boring and unintuitive, if you’re looking for a simple text editor, I really suggest other editors like nano, vim, or other graphical editors like gedit. The main advantage of using Emacs is that in can be more than just a text editor. Figure 2: Tetris inside Emacs I don’t think anybody ever want to play tetris inside Emacs, but it’s there!...

Vertico provides a performant and minimalistic vertical completion UI based on the default completion system. The focus of Vertico is to provide a UI which behaves correctly under all circumstances. By reusing the built-in facilities system, Vertico achieves full compatibility with built-in Emacs completion commands and completion tables. Vertico only provides the completion UI but aims to be highly flexible, extendable and modular. Additional enhancements are available as extensions or complementary packages....

This is a series of post about external Emacs packages that I use. Avy avy is a GNU Emacs package for jumping to visible text using a char-based decision tree. installing with use-package 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 (use-package avy :ensure ;; when `use-package-always-ensure' is nil :bind (("C-:" . avy-goto-char) ("C-'" . avy-goto-char2) ("M-g f" . avy-goto-line) ("M-g w" . avy-goto-word-1) ("M-g e" . avy-goto-word-0))) Notes: for evil user, theres a command evil-avy-goto*....

What is use-package anyway? Simply put, it’s a macro for easier package management within Emacs. I’ve used this for a while, and for me this is much more manageable than the default package declaration. How to use it? First we’ll need to activate it, from your Emacs init.el file: 1 (require 'use-package) And since we’ll mostly use this for external package, also add: 1 (setq use-package-always-ensure t) After that, use-package is ready to use....