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A better Emacs *help* buffer (by Wilfred)
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More convenient key definitions in emacs (by noctuid)
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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.
general.el
Posts with mentions or reviews of general.el.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-04.
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Emacs Bedrock–A minimal Emacs starter kit
I can vouch for general.el[1]. It's easy to use and it integrates with use-package clauses, which-key and evil states. You can look at my config[2] for examples.
1. https://github.com/noctuid/general.el
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Evil mode's kinda hacky
If you need more fine-grained keybindings control use https://github.com/noctuid/general.el
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symbols function definition is void: map!
If you're relying heavily on Evil states and leader keys I also recommend this package: https://github.com/noctuid/general.el
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bind.el -- A key binder with prefix, autoload, repeat-mode and save&restore support
If I have to say one or two things about them, general's readme looks a lot and may be hard to grasp for starters who just want to bind keys. I want bind to be the go to package for newcomers and unify people who are just bored of typing define-key or okay with looping since bind is close to that simplicity yet being powerful due to its design. If you are missing something, please open an issue and see if we can add it.
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How do you call interactive commands with arguments like in vim?
For binding keys I highly recommend the package noctuid/general.el. Specifically binding to general-key-dispatch. Something like: (general-define-key :states '(normal visual) "/" (general-key-dispatch "/" 'ag-search :default 'evil-search-forward))
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Best practice when configuring keybindings?
[1]https://jwiegley.github.io/use-package/keywords/ [2]https://github.com/noctuid/general.el
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Anyone here uses evil-mode with Colemak-DH? How did you set up yours?
I use standard Colemak. I've added the following configuration to be able to exit insert mode by pressing l and h in sequence (that key combination is convenient to type, but still uncommon enough in most words, the main exception being localhost). (general-imap "l" (general-key-dispatch 'self-insert-command :timeout 0.25 "h" 'evil-normal-state)) The above code uses https://github.com/noctuid/general.el.
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Help with setting up emacs on windows
https://github.com/noctuid/general.el Keybinding and leader-key manager for Emacs. There are other packages but this is the best one imo - it even includes vim-style map commands.
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A good config with leader keys
Gonna drop a link to https://github.com/noctuid/general.el
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any users of the Japanese input method? question about input-method.
(general is a keybinding helper package, not strictly necessary but way simpler than the default)
What are some alternatives?
When comparing helpful and general.el you can also consider the following projects:
emacs-which-key - Emacs package that displays available keybindings in popup
use-package - A use-package declaration for simplifying your .emacs
elisp-demos - Demonstrate Emacs Lisp APIs
marginalia - :scroll: marginalia.el - Marginalia in the minibuffer
evil-collection - A set of keybindings for evil-mode
GNU Emacs - Mirror of GNU Emacs
key-chord-multiple - A GNU Emacs minor mode that allows binding commands to multiple simultaneously pressed keys.
solarized-emacs - The Solarized colour theme, ported to Emacs.
.emacs.d - Centaur Emacs - A Fancy and Fast Emacs Configuration
evil - The extensible vi layer for Emacs.
helpful vs emacs-which-key
general.el vs use-package
helpful vs elisp-demos
general.el vs emacs-which-key
helpful vs marginalia
general.el vs evil-collection
helpful vs GNU Emacs
general.el vs key-chord-multiple
helpful vs solarized-emacs
general.el vs .emacs.d
helpful vs use-package
general.el vs evil