.emacs.d VS consult

Compare .emacs.d vs consult and see what are their differences.

consult

:mag: consult.el - Consulting completing-read (by minad)
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.emacs.d consult
8 91
1,914 1,101
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9.2 9.1
9 days ago 6 days ago
Emacs Lisp Emacs Lisp
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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.emacs.d

Posts with mentions or reviews of .emacs.d. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-28.
  • IDE with graphs to the side for Julia?
    7 projects | /r/Julia | 28 Nov 2022
    If you want to dip your toes, I'd maybe try out https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs if you like vi style keybindings or https://github.com/seagle0128/.emacs.d or if you want to use something more traditional. Then I'd recommend https://github.com/gcv/julia-snail for the julia side of things.
  • How to overcome nausea and depression when switching from vi to emacs? Please help
    8 projects | /r/emacs | 17 Oct 2021
    Do not use doom as the heretics suggest! It is an awful experience and very janky, they also change how emacs is configured in a weird way that doesn't lead to one understanding the lisp or how emacs starts up. I'd suggest witchmacs (https://github.com/snackon/Witchmacs) or centaur emacs (https://github.com/seagle0128/.emacs.d) to get a feel of how a config actually looks like. With doom it is obscured under so much. As an exvimmer I moved to god-mode and emacs bindings just because everything always works with these. Using evil gets a little complicated since it doesn't always function properly. But using evil is probably best for you at the moment.
  • NΛNO theme is on ELPA (https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/nano-theme.html)
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 5 Oct 2021
    My favourite emacs starter kit is centaur emacs, it makes great use of hydras and improves on the standard key bindings. But I have to say I love the look of NΛNO and the svg-lib. u/Nicolas-Rougier, have you thought about combining some of the features of centaur with your work?
  • Emacs "distro" for total noob
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 17 Jul 2021
    If you are looking for an alternative to doom without evil mode, I recommend centaur emacs. https://github.com/seagle0128/.emacs.d
  • Should I use Doom Emacs or create a Vanilla Emacs config?
    11 projects | /r/emacs | 12 May 2021
    To me, Vanilla Emacs config certainly. I create Centaur Emacs for myself and share to others.
  • Are there any minimal evil distributions?
    8 projects | /r/emacs | 23 Apr 2021
    There is https://github.com/seagle0128/.emacs.d and there is my own distro https://github.com/Ultra-Hax/magmamacs which is more minimal but less customizable and more opinionated both of these distros are very minimal and blazing fast.
  • Ask HN: Doom Emacs vs. Neovim or Vim?
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Feb 2021
  • tmuxinator behaviour in emacs
    1 project | /r/emacs | 24 Dec 2020
    Example configuration - https://github.com/seagle0128/.emacs.d/blob/e225dbe431f1e7ad368f3fe11d63ceb60c5acfcb/lisp/init-window.el#L142

consult

Posts with mentions or reviews of consult. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-09.
  • Emacs Advent Calendar 9: devdocs, code-cells, dREPL, etc.
    17 projects | /r/emacs | 9 Dec 2023
    BTW, as an alternative to swiper, you can check out consult-line and related commands from consult.
  • Project grep search with folded results, navigable file preview, search term and results window retention?
    1 project | /r/emacs | 21 Nov 2023
    Consult is what you are looking for: https://github.com/minad/consult In particular try consult-ripgrep
  • Emacs 29.1 Released
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Jul 2023
    Emacs has code peek.

    With lsp-mode it has that little window: https://emacs-lsp.github.io/lsp-ui/#lsp-ui-peek

    Personally I use eglot with consult which temporarily switches the entire buffer to do the "peek" functionality rather than popping up a tiny window: https://github.com/minad/consult

  • Highlight multiple lines in consult-line
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 15 Jun 2023
    Thanks for working on this! I just added a consult--maybe-recenter function in a recent commit. This is a nice idea since it can reduce the jumpiness of Consult preview quite a bit.
  • Returning emacs user - what packages are common now?
    9 projects | /r/emacs | 9 May 2023
    An example relevant to your list would be some changes many people are taking with their completion framework - using package that leverage core emacs functionality rather than replacing it with a complete package that 'overrides' it. Consult, vertico, orderless and associate packages come to mind here. If you do a bit of a search you'll find plenty of info. Here is a video from Prot on the subject, but there are many others as well. I think Prot actually went on to write his own completion system to overlay native emacs functionality as well.
  • What's that email client doing here?
    10 projects | /r/emacs | 5 May 2023
    For the "lauch workspaces", I use burly which just uses simple bookmarks. Then with consult, I just use C-x b, then m to narrow to bookmarks and I have all the workspaces available (remote as well).
  • What is wrong with this face definition??? (error "Invalid face" bookmark-menu-heading)
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 2 May 2023
    Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Invalid face" bookmark-menu-heading) internal-set-lisp-face-attribute(bookmark-menu-heading :family unspecified 0) set-face-attribute(bookmark-menu-heading nil :foreground unspecified :background unspecified :family unspecified :slant unspecified :weight unspecified :height unspecified :underline unspecified :overline unspecified :box unspecified :inherit nano-face-strong) set-face(bookmark-menu-heading nano-face-strong) #() eval-after-load-helper("/usr/local/share/emacs/29.0.90/lisp/bookmark.elc") run-hook-with-args(eval-after-load-helper "/usr/local/share/emacs/29.0.90/lisp/bookmark.elc") do-after-load-evaluation("/usr/local/share/emacs/29.0.90/lisp/bookmark.elc") require(bookmark) byte-code("\300\301!\210\300\302!\210\303\304\305\306\307\310\307\311\307\312\313\314\313\315\313\316\317\320&\21\210\321\322\323\324\325DD\326\327\330%\210\321\331\323\324\332DD\333\327..." [require compat bookmark custom-declare-group consult nil "Consulting `completing-read'." :link (info-link :tag "Info Manual" "(consult)") (url-link :tag "Homepage" "https://github.com/minad/consult") (emacs-library-link :tag "Library Source" "consult.el") :group files outlines minibuffer :prefix "consult-" custom-declare-variable consult-narrow-key funcall function #f(compiled-function () #) "Prefix key for narrowing during completion.\n\nGood ..." :type (choice key (const nil)) consult-widen-key #f(compiled-function () #) "Key used for widening during completion.\n\nIf this ..." (choice key (const nil)) consult-project-function #f(compiled-function () #) "Function which returns project root directory.\nThe..." (choice function (const nil)) consult-async-refresh-delay #f(compiled-function () #) "Refreshing delay of the completion UI for asynchro..." float consult-async-input-throttle #f(compiled-function () #) "Input throttle for asynchronous commands.\n\nThe asy..." consult-async-input-debounce #f(compiled-function () #) "Input debounce for asynchronous commands.\n\nThe asy..." consult-async-min-input #f(compiled-function () #) "Minimum number of letters needed, before asynchron..." natnum consult-async-split-style #f(compiled-function () #) "Async splitting style, see `consult-async-split-st..." ...] 18) require(consult) byte-code("\300\301!\210\302\303\304\305#\210\306\211\203,\0\211@\303\1N\203%\0\304\1N\204%\0\307\304\2\303\4N#\210\1A\266\202\202\13\0\210\310\303\304\311#..." [require consult defvaralias consult-notes-sources consult-notes-file-dir-sources nil (saved-value saved-variable-comment) put make-obsolete-variable "0.6" consult-notes--all-sources consult-notes-all-sources custom-declare-group consult-notes "Search notes with consult." :group convenience custom-declare-variable consult-notes-category funcall function #f(compiled-function () #) "Category symbol for the notes in this package." :type symbol #f(compiled-function () #) "Sources for `consult-notes'." (repeat symbol) #f(compiled-function () #) "Directories of files for searching with `consult-n..." (list string key string) consult-notes-file-dir-annotate-function #f(compiled-function () #) "Function to call for annotations of file note dire..." consult-notes-use-rg #f(compiled-function () #) "Whether to use ripgrep or just grep for text searc..." boolean consult-notes-ripgrep-args #f(compiled-function () #) "Arguments for `ripgrep' and `consult-notes-search-..." string consult-notes-grep-args #f(compiled-function () #) "Arguments for `grep' and `consult-notes-search-in-..." consult-notes-default-format #f(compiled-function () #) "Default format for `consult-notes' open function." sexp consult-notes-max-relative-age ...] 8) (consult-notes-org-headings-mode) eval-buffer() ; Reading at buffer position 2730 funcall-interactively(eval-buffer) call-interactively(eval-buffer record nil) command-execute(eval-buffer record) execute-extended-command(nil "eval-buffer" "eval-bu") funcall-interactively(execute-extended-command nil "eval-buffer" "eval-bu") call-interactively(execute-extended-command nil nil) command-execute(execute-extended-command)
  • Why does elpaca make emacs startup so much faster?
    9 projects | /r/emacs | 23 Apr 2023
    Wow, interesting that my response is getting down voted. It seems not enough that I give away my work for free. Nevertheless I appreciate support from the community, as other Emacs package developers. The support is actually helpful. To clarify, publishing my configuration would translate into quite a bit of work, requiring separation of private and public bits.
  • Which package manager should I use?
    5 projects | /r/emacs | 12 Apr 2023
    They're still coming in. This one is from yesterday: https://github.com/minad/consult/issues/793
  • Alternative keyboard layouts
    5 projects | /r/emacs | 19 Mar 2023
    If you like meow-visit also try imenu it is built into Emacs and can be very useful either by itself or as part of consult. consult also has a consult-mark function that can be helpful, meow kind of breaks it since it makes a lot of marks.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing .emacs.d and consult you can also consider the following projects:

doom-emacs - An Emacs framework for the stubborn martian hacker [Moved to: https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs]

helm - Emacs incremental completion and selection narrowing framework

meow - Yet another modal editing on Emacs / 猫态编辑

consult-projectile

straight.el - 🍀 Next-generation, purely functional package manager for the Emacs hacker.

general.el - More convenient key definitions in emacs

vertico - :dizzy: vertico.el - VERTical Interactive COmpletion

use-package - A use-package declaration for simplifying your .emacs

swiper - Ivy - a generic completion frontend for Emacs, Swiper - isearch with an overview, and more. Oh, man!

eglot - A client for Language Server Protocol servers

selectrum - 🔔 Better solution for incremental narrowing in Emacs.