helpful
A better Emacs *help* buffer (by Wilfred)
current-window-only
Open things only in the current window. No other windows, no splits. (by FrostyX)
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
helpful
Posts with mentions or reviews of helpful.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-16.
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How to "touch file" in dired mode?
If you want to programmatically create files, write to them, etc, then read the fine manual, it comes with your Emacs, has index, search and web-like navigation. It is well worth your time investing in looking up the manual, both for Emacs and for Elisp. You access the manual via C-h i. Another good thing to learn how to use is Emacs built-in help. As a minimal basic, C-h f will display information about functions, and C-h v will display the documentation for variables. You can also see where things are declared, open the source code, etc. A good alternative to built-in help is Helpful, which I suggest installing and start using too.
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Is doom emacs still actively maintained?
It tweaks Emacs GC. You can run M-x describe-variable while your cursor is at gc-cons-threshold to learn about it. If you opted-in for using "Vim bindings" (Evil mode), you can press K while in normal mode. Note that K doesn't run the describe- command in Doom, but it runs helpful-command from (https://github.com/Wilfred/helpful), which provides more context that describe- commands usually do.
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Quickly learning some LISP basics for using emacs?
The packages helpful and elisp-demos are super useful because they enhance Emacs' built-in documentation.
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Is the official GNU Emacs up to date?
You can try to actually use helpful for a while. There was also a package with examples, I don't remember the name, perhaps someone else knows which I mean, that shows usage of a function where available. I remember using it and found it very useful for a while when I was learning elisp more actively. I still use helpful sometimes.
- Helpful: Better Emacs Help
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Best emacs configs for Javascript and/or users who don't like to memorize keybindings?
Once you got the hang of keybindings, which-key is a helpful extension (aka package) to Emacs. At this stage, there are other helpful packages and keybindings.
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Doom -> vanilla emacs 29
helpful for better help buffers
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Emacs terminology
Since you seem interested, have a look at elisp-demos , too. It works in tandem with helpful.
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Good short documentation for CL functions (etc.) available?
Elisp Docs are fantastic they have documented everything while with CL most documentation is missing or only on the Web. With Emacs, one need to learn about C-h f (describe-function), C-h k (describe-key), helpful.el and elisp-demos and a new world opens. Terminology is always different, simple example: Microsoft terminology sounds like bullshit, to a Unix person.
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What's the Best Way to Learn Emacs?
Your primary source of knowledge will be the manual and the built-in discoverability (describe-* functions, or helpful) and of course reading the code. I'm not a manual person myself, but Emacs is one of the examples where it is truly excellent and has answers for almost everything.
current-window-only
Posts with mentions or reviews of current-window-only.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-19.
- current-window-only: Open things only in the current window. No other windows, no splits.
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Preventing other windows from having their buffer changed when an org-roam capture buffer pops up
Code: https://github.com/FrostyX/current-window-only
- Making emacs always use the same window
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Emacs display-buffer replacement?
Not a window manager replacement but maybe you will find it helpful https://github.com/FrostyX/current-window-only
- I created a package that forces Emacs to open buffers in the current window
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At long last it is now time to ask - how do you get Emacs to open a file in the current window?
I just published this package, you can give it a try https://github.com/frostyx/current-window-only Or just copy some of its code to your config.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing helpful and current-window-only you can also consider the following projects:
emacs-which-key - Emacs package that displays available keybindings in popup
clojure-mode - Emacs support for the Clojure(Script) programming language
elisp-demos - Demonstrate Emacs Lisp APIs
edwina - Dynamic window manager for Emacs – GitHub mirror
marginalia - :scroll: marginalia.el - Marginalia in the minibuffer
zoom - Fixed and automatic balanced window layout for Emacs
GNU Emacs - Mirror of GNU Emacs
org-superstar-mode - Make org-mode stars a little more super
solarized-emacs - The Solarized colour theme, ported to Emacs.
ace-window - Quickly switch windows in Emacs
use-package - A use-package declaration for simplifying your .emacs
centaur-tabs - Emacs plugin aiming to become an aesthetic, modern looking tabs plugin
helpful vs emacs-which-key
current-window-only vs clojure-mode
helpful vs elisp-demos
current-window-only vs edwina
helpful vs marginalia
current-window-only vs zoom
helpful vs GNU Emacs
current-window-only vs org-superstar-mode
helpful vs solarized-emacs
current-window-only vs ace-window
helpful vs use-package
current-window-only vs centaur-tabs