selectrum VS ggtags

Selectrum's wiki has some basic info on completing-read: https://github.com/radian-software/selectrum/wiki/Tips-for-Creating-Commands

[1] https://github.com/radian-software/selectrum/issues/114

I noticed over the weekend that the venerable Selectrum package made by Radon Rosborough has been deprecated in favor of Daniel Mendler's Vertico package.

https://github.com/radian-software/selectrum is getting superceded by https://github.com/minad/vertico within just a year or two.

I have been using straight for a while now and I think it is great! The ability to lazy load everything by default does a lot to make Emacs snappier (or at the very least, faster to boot). Being able to pull packages directly from git (be it local or a forge) makes package development a lot easier. raxod has a lot of really sleek, modern emacs packages that I would encourage everyone to check out, spectrum[0] and ctrf[1] in particular are really great as well.

[0] https://github.com/radian-software/selectrum

selectrum

;;https://github.com/raxod502/selectrum (defun force-debug (func &rest args) (condition-case e (apply func args) ((debug error) (signal (car e) (cdr e))))) (advice-add #'selectrum--minibuffer-post-command-hook :around #'force-debug) (selectrum-mode +1) ;; to make sorting and filtering more intelligent (selectrum-prescient-mode +1) ;; to save your command history on disk, so the sorting gets more ;; intelligent over time (prescient-persist-mode +1) (setq completion-styles '(orderless)) ;; Persist history over Emacs restarts (savehist-mode) ;; Optional performance optimization ;; by highlighting only the visible candidates. (setq orderless-skip-highlighting (lambda () selectrum-is-active)) (setq selectrum-highlight-candidates-function #'orderless-highlight-matches) (setq selectrum-prescient-enable-filtering nil) (selectrum-prescient-mode +1) (prescient-persist-mode +1) (use-package marginalia :ensure t :config (marginalia-mode)) (use-package embark :ensure t :bind (("C-." . embark-act) ;; pick some comfortable binding ("C-;" . embark-dwim) ;; good alternative: M-. ("C-h B" . embark-bindings)) ;; alternative for \describe-bindings' :init ;; Optionally replace the key help with a completing-read interface (setq prefix-help-command #'embark-prefix-help-command) :config ;; Hide the mode line of the Embark live/completions buffers (add-to-list 'display-buffer-alist '("\`\Embark Collect \(Live\|Completions\)\" nil (window-parameters (mode-line-format . none))))) ;; Consult users will also want the embark-consult package. (use-package embark-consult :ensure t :after (embark consult) :demand t ; only necessary if you have the hook below ;; if you want to have consult previews as you move around an ;; auto-updating embark collect buffer :hook (embark-collect-mode . consult-preview-at-point-mode))`

Selectrum and Prescient would be nice.

Can you access https://elpa.gnu.org in a browser?

The packages available via the built-in package manager once configured do not come from GitHub though they may be developed there. They come from GNU ELPA NonGNU ELPA and MELPA. You would still need internet access though.

To install elisp packages system-wide under the Portage control you can use gs-elpa. Read layman documentation before using it, as gs-elpa represents ELPA repositories as g-sorcery overlays. It currently supports 4 repositories: gnu-elpa, marmalade, melpa and melpa-stable.

I run emacs at work on a system that does not access the internet, so I cannot utilize the package interface that pulls directly from melpa (and elpa etc). Years ago, someone copied a version of melpa into a local directory on the air-gapped server. In my init.el, I setq package-archive to something like (("local-melpa" . "/path/to/the/melpa/dir")) so that it points to this local directory. I'm wondering if there is a tool to facilitate this sort of mirroring? I would like to update my packages on this air-gapped network. I am able to copy files onto the system from a less restricted workstation with internet access. Is it just a matter of unzipping the melpa repo and pointing package-archive to the fresh melpa directory?

https://github.com/leoliu/ggtags works well ; otherwise I use dumb-jump and eglot quite a bit

https://github.com/leoliu/ggtags can also be useful ; and for me ripgrep via https://github.com/leoliu/ack-el or https://github.com/jacktasia/dumb-jump

I get similar connection-security messages when attempting to connect to the package archive at https://elpa.nongnu.org/ —again, in both *Package* and in *eww*—while elpa.gnu.org seems to be just flat out nonresponsive. However, other https sites including https://duckduckgo.com/about and https://twitter.com work just fine.

I am working on adding more packages to NonGNU ELPA, the new package archive enabled by default from Emacs 28 onwards. Compared to GNU ELPA, there is no need for a copyright assignment (the only requirement is that packages do not endorse non-free software, but that is the case for most Emacs-related software to begin with).

You can also install the latest stable version of Org via GNU ELPA by invoking M-x package-install RET org RET.