helpful
A better Emacs *help* buffer (by Wilfred)
rare
Realtime regex-extraction and aggregation into common CLI formats such as histograms, bar graphs, numerical summaries, tables, and more! (by zix99)
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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.
rare
Posts with mentions or reviews of rare.
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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Is doom emacs still actively maintained?
If you tried it and now wondering what the heck is "rare" and how to get it installed: https://github.com/zix99/rare
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Show a man-like interface
I do something similar in my go app, rare to display docs by piping markdown files using go's embedded filesystem (similar to the response about looking at the $PAGER variable). You can look here: https://github.com/zix99/rare/blob/master/cmd/docs.go
- I added heatmaps to my realtime text visualizer, rare (Also: histograms, tables, bargraphs, etc)
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Added heatmaps to my realtime text analysis tool, rare
Full details/download can be found in the docs: https://rare.zdyn.net/
- rare is a fast and realtime data aggregator. Don't wait to see complex histogram/table/filter results from text files
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Rare: Realtime regex extractor and aggregator gets libpcre2 support via cgo
A little background: rare is a realtime text parser and aggregator, attempting to make visualizing data from a mass of text (eg. log) files easy and painless.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing helpful and rare you can also consider the following projects:
emacs-which-key - Emacs package that displays available keybindings in popup
linesieve - An unholy blend of grep, sed, awk, and Python.
elisp-demos - Demonstrate Emacs Lisp APIs
goman - The missing man page for Go binaries. Goman fetches the repo's readme as a man page replacement.
marginalia - :scroll: marginalia.el - Marginalia in the minibuffer
teip - Masking tape to help commands "do one thing well"
GNU Emacs - Mirror of GNU Emacs
crafted-emacs - A sensible base Emacs configuration.
solarized-emacs - The Solarized colour theme, ported to Emacs.
fzf - :cherry_blossom: A command-line fuzzy finder
use-package - A use-package declaration for simplifying your .emacs
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