What do you miss the most from your previous editor/IDE after you moved to Emacs?

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  • vlfi

    View Large Files in Emacs

  • Theres always: https://github.com/m00natic/vlfi

  • emacs-gdb

    GDB graphical interface for GNU Emacs

  • try https://github.com/weirdNox/emacs-gdb I like it much better than gud, realgud and dap-mode.

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  • helm-ag

    The silver searcher with helm interface

  • I'm not sure but maybe a tool like helm-ag or consult-ripgrep may help with this. You can interactively find lines that you need to edit, then move to edit-mode and batch rename some variables or smth.

  • consult

    :mag: consult.el - Consulting completing-read

  • I'm not sure but maybe a tool like helm-ag or consult-ripgrep may help with this. You can interactively find lines that you need to edit, then move to edit-mode and batch rename some variables or smth.

  • doom-emacs

    Discontinued An Emacs framework for the stubborn martian hacker [Moved to: https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs]

  • I use Emacs Doom. It starts up extremely fast, despite it having many batteries included:

  • orderless

    Emacs completion style that matches multiple regexps in any order

  • Orderless has a negative-literal matching style that wouldn't be necessary if Emacs had negative lookahead assertions. To match strings without abc, for example, Orderless generates this regexp:

  • multiple-cursors.el

    Multiple cursors for emacs.

  • Have you tried multiple-cursors?

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    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • good-scroll.el

    Attempt at good pixel-based smooth scrolling in Emacs

  • I don't know but maybe it requires some configuration but pixel-scroll-mode only led Emacs to freeze. I think a better package might be https://github.com/io12/good-scroll.el, and for images https://github.com/casouri/iscroll

  • iscroll

    Smooth scrolling over images in Emacs (by casouri)

  • I don't know but maybe it requires some configuration but pixel-scroll-mode only led Emacs to freeze. I think a better package might be https://github.com/io12/good-scroll.el, and for images https://github.com/casouri/iscroll

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