affe VS consult

Compare affe vs consult and see what are their differences.

affe

:monkey: affe.el - Asynchronous Fuzzy Finder for Emacs (by minad)

consult

:mag: consult.el - Consulting completing-read (by minad)
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affe

Posts with mentions or reviews of affe. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-10.
  • Fuzzy Finding with Emacs Instead of Fzf
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Dec 2023
    and another one, from the author of consult/vertico/..., minad, is affe: https://github.com/minad/affe
  • Fuzzy Finding with Emacs Instead of fzf
    1 project | /r/emacs | 9 Dec 2023
    Why does it not mention affe from u/minad-emacs? https://github.com/minad/affe
  • Emacs Advent Calendar 7: ordeless, embark 1.0 and some bric-a-brac
    9 projects | /r/emacs | 7 Dec 2023
    If you don't mind, I have a bit of an unrelated question for you: What are your thoughts on Emac's existing multithreading support? For a few weeks now, I'm trying to do something practical with them, and found that they at least enable one thing: accept-process-output can be done without blocking the main thread (I have an small example and I'm preparing a blog post). I'm asking because I stumbled upon this project of yours: https://github.com/minad/affe and thought that it would be easier to implement with threads (with all their limitations). It would require careful coding so that the heavier computations don't block or starve the main thread, but I think it's possible, and would result in smaller and more performant code.
  • affe: Asynchronous Fuzzy Finder for Emacs
    1 project | /r/planetemacs | 7 Dec 2023
    1 project | /r/planetemacs | 10 Oct 2023
  • Fuzzy file finding in non-project dir
    1 project | /r/DoomEmacs | 5 Aug 2022
    I found [affe.el](https://github.com/minad/affe), but I don't want to add this package if doom supports this kind of feature.
  • M-x find-dired-name
    5 projects | /r/emacs | 9 Mar 2022
    The closest thing you're looking for is affe it just uses completing-read in an async manner. The filtering is also done async so there is no lag. It supports emacs' completion styles, e.g. you can couple it with orderless.
  • affe.el - Asynchronous Fuzzy Finder for Emacs
    1 project | /r/planetemacs | 23 Jul 2021
    4 projects | /r/emacs | 20 May 2021
    Affe provides an asynchronous fuzzy finder similar to the fzf command-line fuzzy finder, written in pure Elisp. A producer process is started in the background, e.g., find, fd or ripgrep. The output produced by this process is filtered by an external asynchronous Emacs process. The Emacs UI always stays responsive since the work is completely off-loaded to other processes. The results are presented in the minibuffer using Consult, which allows to quickly select from the available items.
  • What is everybody using for file switching/selection?
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 26 May 2021
    You may want to try my Affe, the Asynchronous Fuzzy Finder for Emacs, which works similarly to fzf and is fast, since the file list is generated only once and the filtering is performed in an external process on all files. However there is also no support for flex sorting, only filtering as offered by orderless.

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 affe and consult you can also consider the following projects:

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

helm - Emacs incremental completion and selection narrowing framework

fzf - :cherry_blossom: A command-line fuzzy finder

consult-projectile

exa - A modern replacement for ‘ls’.

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

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

selectrum - 🔔 Better solution for incremental narrowing in Emacs.

corfu - :desert_island: corfu.el - COmpletion in Region FUnction

GNU Emacs - Mirror of GNU Emacs

embark - Emacs Mini-Buffer Actions Rooted in Keymaps