Emacs Lisp Search

Open-source Emacs Lisp projects categorized as Search

Top 8 Emacs Lisp Search Projects

  1. swiper

    Ivy - a generic completion frontend for Emacs, Swiper - isearch with an overview, and more. Oh, man! (by abo-abo)

    Project mention: Ask HN: Where to Begin with "Modern" Emacs? | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-11-01

    I saw what was possible with emacs via systemcrafters: https://systemcrafters.net/emacs-from-scratch/

    And I should note I have been using it for about 25 years, and was mostly in the dark about what it was capable of, though many of those years were in environments where I was using versions 5-10 years out of date, and completely locked down/out of things like melpa.

    As far as keeping up with whats latest and greatest, I think the real answer is there isn't a good online resource. There are emacs meetups and conferences and some are virtual, and you can ask around other power users and see what they are doing. I even find emacs packages to be pretty poor at selling themselves on why you should use them.

    As an example, Ivy and Counsel are kind of game changers to the UI, but I don't think you get any idea of that from their manual or main github page: https://github.com/abo-abo/swiper

  2. SaaSHub

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  3. deft

    Deft for Emacs

  4. rg.el

    Emacs search tool based on ripgrep

  5. engine-mode

    Minor mode for defining and querying search engines through Emacs.

  6. notdeft

    NotDeft note manager for Emacs

  7. counsel-ag-popup

    The power of searching with ag using counsel with transient popups Magit style.

  8. ag-popup

    The power of searching with ag with transient popups Magit style.

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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Index

What are some of the best open-source Search projects in Emacs Lisp? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 swiper 2,418
2 deft 755
3 rg.el 547
4 engine-mode 279
5 notdeft 178
6 org-roam-search 40
7 counsel-ag-popup 14
8 ag-popup 0

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