things.el
Extensions to thingatpt.el (by noctuid)
crux
A Collection of Ridiculously Useful eXtensions for Emacs (by bbatsov)
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things.el
Posts with mentions or reviews of things.el.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-13.
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A Consistent Structural Editing Interface - karthinks.com
The current state of things is pretty underwhelming and convoluted. In 2018 I designed a system on top of thingatpt that was not married to any parser (can use regexps or use tree-sitter or anything else to build things) or to any editing style (modal vs. non-modal). I'll probably never complete it due to a lack of time/interest, but it still seems to me that what's needed is something like this, a library in the middle that could be used for any package like this. Not sure why no one else seems to see how good thingatpt could be.
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What other editors have been built with emacs?
things.el: https://github.com/noctuid/things.el
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The State of Structural Editing in Emacs?
I've planned to use treesitter in things.el for a long time, but another package will likely become useful long before I have time to do this.
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Effective and efficient text editing using Emacs (Alternative to Evil)
I've designed my own text object/motion system that I hope will eventually bring more "useful" composability to any Emacs user that wants it (see things), but right the implementation is buggy and incomplete.
crux
Posts with mentions or reviews of crux.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-29.
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Emacs 29 is nigh What can we expect?
For those still on 28, crux-rename-file-and-buffer does the same thing (https://github.com/bbatsov/crux). I've been using it for half a decade at this point. This sort of command, that no other code will rely on, was never that important to get into core, and there's some merit in making people create the commands they needed. It's not like with the additions to subr and subr-x libraries (string-replace, string-search etc), which can't come fast enough.
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Change FILE of a buffer
Use vc-rename-file or crux-rename-file-and-buffer from crux
- Repository with code snippets and utility functions
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Deleting files in Emacs [OC]
A similar functionality is in the crux package (see crux-delete-file-and-buffer).
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What is the emacs equivalent of vim eunuch?
How about https://github.com/bbatsov/crux?
- Getting started with emacs is really hard
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Effective and efficient text editing using Emacs (Alternative to Evil)
Some packages I use for more effective text editing is crux for general text editing (video on crux), paredit for lisp editing and for org-mode:
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What is your favorite text-editing package / command?
I'll go with crux. It's not all about text editing, but it's got a lot of commands in dwim-fashion.
- Emacs Redux | Return to the Essence of Text Editing
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Possible to learn emacs org mode in 15 - 30 hours?
I learned the syntax of org-mode in an hour (maybe less), It has many superiorities to markdown (see this excellent essay). Emacs is a fully-featured tool, it's a lifetime of learning, just like all extremely powerful tools, you can see the blogs of many emacs experts like Bozhidar, Protesilaos, Karl Voit (to name a few) learning new features of Emacs quite regularly.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing things.el and crux you can also consider the following projects:
evil-textobj-tree-sitter - Tree-sitter powered textobjects for evil mode in Emacs
emacs4cl - A tiny DIY kit to set up vanilla Emacs for Common Lisp programming
gopcaml-mode
meow - Yet another modal editing on Emacs / 猫态编辑
xah-fly-keys - the most efficient keybinding for emacs
emacs.d - Fast and robust Emacs setup.
link-hint.el - Pentadactyl-like Link Hinting in Emacs with Avy
selectrum - 🔔 Better solution for incremental narrowing in Emacs.
.emacs.d - My personal emacs settings, and the ones used in @emacsrocks
emacs.d - An Emacs configuration bundle with batteries included
kmonad - An advanced keyboard manager