The pitch Do you maintain your own .emacs.d and worry that it is a single pile of complected and unmaintainable logic? Fancy a bit of spacemacs’ layers? Modules, modules and more modules for the win. Tooling This approach requires a trivially small amount of elisp and a single plugin (ivy, actually counsel, all of which is confusingly called swiper!). The code The code in its entirety (be WARNED, this is my first entry into Emacs’ lisp): ... Read more

ag is great and searches through your code base in the blink of an eye. Coupled with helm it makes for a great experience finding things. If run in a git project then it helpfully ignores those in your .gitignore file. However, in most projects I have files with different extensions, maybe some .md for documentation, some .html for published documentation, .clj, .cljs, .cljc, .js etc. I often know in which files the thing I am searching for lives, but I hadn’t figured out a way to restrict ag. ... Read more

Projectile is an excellent library for managing ‘projects’ (where a project is typically a git repository). Today I found a new tip - projectile-kill-buffers which effectively removes the project from your current emacs session: projectile-kill-buffers is an interactive autoloaded compiled Lisp function in ‘projectile.el’. It is bound to SPC p k, M-m p k, C-c p k, <menu-bar> <tools> <Projectile> <Kill project buffers>. (projectile-kill-buffers) Kill all project buffers. [back] It is really useful if you are toggling between multiple projects and want to finish working on one of the projects. ... Read more