consult-project-extra VS rg.el

consult-project, to be clear, is not a part of the consult package. project.el has had over 25 commits since consult-project last commit, which may mean it’s not up to date with the current library. Regardless, using consult and project.el commands work for me, just trying to offer alternatives.

Others have mentioned the awesome projectile, but I think it should be said that Emacs now has built in project.el which has come in leaps and bounds (though probably still lacks some projectile features).

I use project.el alongside consult[1] which has many convenient wrapper functions over built-in ones, like an enhanced `switch-to-buffer` with project support. I am actually using an even tighter integration called consult-project-extra[2].

The most advanced and overkill solution would probably be to use bufler.el[3] which basically allows you to define your custom logic for buffer grouping.

[1] https://github.com/minad/consult

[2] https://github.com/Qkessler/consult-project-extra

[3] https://github.com/alphapapa/bufler.el

In the meantime, a small consult extension package I threw together for project jumping + project buffer+file selection is consult-jump-project (see also consult-project-extra which it was inspired by). Be sure to increase your recentf file count to something large, like 1000. These use the inbuilt project.el to determine the list of known projects.

Enrique here! The consult-project-extra package got recently accepted into MELPA. Nevertheless, expect to also find the package in GNU ELPA in the future, since it only requires packages either built into Emacs or on GNU ELPA (as is consult).

Sometimes I don't know exactly how to configure a package or which options I should be using. Instead of searching the web for the examples last year I came up with an idea: I started collecting interesting/useful dotfiles~/~dotemacs collections in a single place. You can find the repository at github.com/dorneanu/dotemacs. So what I usually do is to search inside the folder where I've cloned all repositories for specific keywords. For this purpose I use rg.el and some custom function:

I am a newbie to emacs and just last week i installed and learning about emacs. I wanted to search for text across multiple files and exclude certain file types. I have been trying to use https://github.com/dajva/rg.el

rg.el or deadgrep: Emacs interfaces to ripgrep, a grep-like tool that is very fast. This lets us search across a large number of files for a pattern of text. The disadvantage of searching for text is that if you are looking for the method called foo and there are hundreds of them that exist, it can be hard to know which one you really want. On the other hand, at the scale and complexity that you are talking about, I can imagine that more IDE-like tools just start failing.

In this post we see how to rename interactively a function that appears in several files using rg.el and wgrep!

rg.el is an Emacs UI for the cli ripgrep.

Oh that's a good point about quickfix. I do end up going back to vim for that sort of thing too I guess. In emacs I did setup https://github.com/dajva/rg.el which gives you https://rgel.readthedocs.io/en/2.1.0/usage.html#results-buffer to look through results but I've never tried to do something like cnext/cfdo/colder/cnewer in emacs.

I use a different ripgrep integration, rg. It has a menu using transient, just like magit (set it up with (rg-enable-menu)). It makes rerunning the searches with different parameters easy.

You can use the rg.el and change the executable to use the ripgrep-all. For example:

Another option is https://github.com/dajva/rg.el