helm-ag
The silver searcher with helm interface (by emacsorphanage)
vlfi
View Large Files in Emacs (by m00natic)
helm-ag | vlfi | |
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3 | 9 | |
491 | 443 | |
0.2% | - | |
4.4 | 0.0 | |
about 1 month ago | over 2 years ago | |
Emacs Lisp | Emacs Lisp | |
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helm-ag
Posts with mentions or reviews of helm-ag.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-20.
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How do I tell helm-ag to ignore files with a particular file extension?
Helm-Ag is wonderful.
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Helm - can it search within files?
I use https://github.com/emacsorphanage/helm-ag because searches the contents for all files in a directory. That uses ag, the siver searcher which is a variant of grep (which is a shell utility that searches file contents)
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What do you miss the most from your previous editor/IDE after you moved to Emacs?
I'm not sure but maybe a tool like helm-ag or consult-ripgrep may help with this. You can interactively find lines that you need to edit, then move to edit-mode and batch rename some variables or smth.
vlfi
Posts with mentions or reviews of vlfi.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-13.
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Text Editor Data Structures
That is essentially what VLF[1] does in Emacs. It reads in discrete chunks of the file at a time and doesn’t load the next one till you try to display it. Doesn’t require any fancy data structures, just some extra book keeping and mechanics.
[1] https://github.com/m00natic/vlfi
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Can't learn emacs, can't use anything else (rant)
That is an issue both related to Emacs' internal representation of buffers and modes working in the background on the data in buffers of very large files, for which there are some workarounds like vlf-mode. See for example (info "(emacs) Long Lines") for similar issues with long lines and a solution more similar to what all those other editors you mention are doing to mitigate the issue of large files and large lines.
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Commercial-Emacs
You can edit gigabyte-large files with no trouble vlf.el https://github.com/m00natic/vlfi – though it's a bit of a separate universe, you have to use vlf-occur instead of occur to find matches over all gigabytes of the file
;; To have it offered when opening large files:
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so-long mode slow
For arbitrarily large files (think GB) in terms of size of the data stored you may use e.g. vlfi.
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How to speed up opening of large files in Doom Emacs?
You can use vlf package to open large files
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Using Emacs in an IDE World
You know how "there's an app for that" used to be a thing? Well, there's an elisp package for that: https://github.com/m00natic/vlfi
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What do you miss the most from your previous editor/IDE after you moved to Emacs?
Theres always: https://github.com/m00natic/vlfi
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Tips for Avoiding Hangups
I’m aware of a few potential solutions including: dired-async and async-shell-command. There’s also https://github.com/m00natic/vlfi for viewing large files, but I don’t know how to address GPG pinentry and TRAMP issues very well.
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Got rid of every other text editor on my Mac
I think you might enjoy this mode: vlfi. It is available in the standard Elpa package listing.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing helm-ag and vlfi you can also consider the following projects:
orderless - Emacs completion style that matches multiple regexps in any order
emacs-libvterm - Emacs libvterm integration
doom-emacs - An Emacs framework for the stubborn martian hacker [Moved to: https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs]
good-scroll.el - Attempt at good pixel-based smooth scrolling in Emacs
commercial-emacs - "Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb." -- Spaceballs (1987)
multiple-cursors.el - Multiple cursors for emacs.
iscroll - Smooth scrolling over images in Emacs
consult - :mag: consult.el - Consulting completing-read
emacs-from-scratch - An example of a fully custom Emacs configuration developed live on YouTube!