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consult lnav
91 75
1,079 6,543
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9.1 9.5
6 days ago 1 day ago
Emacs Lisp C++
GNU General Public License v3.0 only BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License
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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.
  • 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
    P.S. I saw another approach to doing that: https://github.com/minad/consult/pull/774. But minad decided not to merge it due to perf and personal preference. Mine is a little better performance-wise: it checks for highlighting only visible candidates and caches the highlight overlays (of which there can be many). But I am not sure if I will be able to overcome minad's personal preference, so don't want to bother with PR. If someone wants to polish this code and try merge into mainline, I won't mind. Think of this code as "public domain".
    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
    5 projects | /r/emacs | 12 Apr 2023

lnav

Posts with mentions or reviews of lnav. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-26.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing consult and lnav you can also consider the following projects:

helm - Emacs incremental completion and selection narrowing framework

consult-projectile

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

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

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

lightproxy - 💎 Cross platform Web debugging proxy

embark - Emacs Mini-Buffer Actions Rooted in Keymaps

dive - A tool for exploring each layer in a docker image

avy - Jump to things in Emacs tree-style