Quicksilver VS consult

Pretty sure it was Nicholas Jitkoff[1] and his team. He had done Quicksilver[2] a few years back which popularized this single input interface for osx desktop.

[1] https://nicholas.jitkoff.com/

[2] https://qsapp.com/

There are these open source alternatives, I haven’t checked their privacy policies or their code Maybe try and report back? https://www.cerebroapp.com https://qsapp.com https://ueli.app https://github.com/ParthJadhav/Verve

I've used Quicksilver for clipboard history historically. There is a currently a bug that I've been meaning to delve into: https://github.com/quicksilver/Quicksilver/issues/2913 but still generally usable. Particularly handy combined with adding simple AppleScript or JXA actions to manipulate the content (I have several simple ones for example to run a regex, to clean extraneous content around a number, a phone number, strip whitespace, indent 4 spaces for pasting into a markdown codeblock on SO, etc etc).

The Shelf plug-in also very handy along similar lines.

Should add Quicksilver. It's the first app I install on my Macs

Spotlight-esque apps for enhanced keyboard driven productivity (pick one): Raycast Alfred Quicksilver

Quicksilver

For a browsable clipboard history on macOS, I recommend LaunchBar (https://www.obdev.at/products/launchbar/; docs at https://www.obdev.at/resources/launchbar/help/ClipboardHisto...). I used to use the Clipboard Plugin of the free and open source app Quicksilver (https://qsapp.com/), which worked fine but was slightly less streamlined. Some people prefer Alfred (https://www.alfredapp.com/help/features/clipboard/).

This is great. Reminds me of QuickSilver[1]. I'm evaluating HomeRow[2] for a VIM driving the Mac OS, will try this as well.

I love how:

a. accessibility features are making the OS more accessible for everyone through automation

b. good the accessibility implementation is on the Mac that most applications are inherently compatible with solutions like this.

[1]: https://qsapp.com/

[2]: https://www.homerow.app/

Good to see something like this, don't forget there is already an open source alternative (pre-existing) for Alfred and Raycast. It's called Quicksilver - https://qsapp.com

Kupfer (gnome) - https://kupferlauncher.github.io

Quicksilver (macos): https://qsapp.com/

I still find myself using these and enjoy the 'wei wu wei' flow of them: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d4LkTstvUL4 (skip to 5 or 11 minutes in)

BTW, as an alternative to swiper, you can check out consult-line and related commands from consult.

Consult is what you are looking for: https://github.com/minad/consult In particular try consult-ripgrep

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

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.

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.

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).

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)

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.

They're still coming in. This one is from yesterday: https://github.com/minad/consult/issues/793

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.