orderless

It’s very hard to describe without a visual but the gist of it is that the combination of the following 3 packages make it possible dynamically create queries, refine the results to precisely what you want, and then either perform some action on them or just plop them into a buffer for later use. There’s some notion of a type of the result, which means that the actions and results can be richer than just plaintext. Ie: you can imagine a query over a list of commits, where it displays while you’re searching as only the commit shortrev and subject, but where you can viably define a filter on the commit date or commit author. You can then export that list to a temporary buffer, and pressing enter on any given commit will show you the full diff and the full commit message. Orderless means you’re not crafting regexes directly, but just some co

What I really want is orderless[1] searching of my vterm shell history. That would be a game changer. https://github.com/oantolin/orderless

While we're on the topic of finding stuff in Emacs, check out the `consult-ripgrep` [1] command from the Consult package by Daniel Mendler. Consult coupled with Orderless [2] package is a super power. You can even export the results (using Embark [3]) into a wgrep buffer, make edits on just the search results, and have them applied across the code base! [1]: https://github.com/minad/consult#grep-and-find [2]: https://github.com/oantolin/orderless [3]: https://github.com/oantolin/embark

I do things like that inside Emacs with the consult-grep command from the Consult package, combined with the Orderless matching style, Embark to collect the results in a buffer. This has several advantages over the command line: - Interactivity: the results are updated live as you type, so you catch typos sooner and can tweak the search terms as you go. - The buffer of search results you collect with Embark is not dead text like it would be in the terminal, instead, each line is a link to the corresponding file taking you to the line that matched. - Wgrep lets you edit all the matching lines in place! Packages referenced: 1. Consult: https://github.com/minad/consult/ 2. Orderless: https://github.com/oantolin/orderless 3. Embark: https://github.com/oantolin/embark 4. Wgrep: http://github.com/mhayashi1120/Emacs-wgrep/raw/master/wgrep....

I use it at my current job in which I work in a large C++ codebase. I formerly used CLion. Whether Emacs is an IDE or not depends how you define IDE. I use Eglot [0] for LSP integration; this gives me IDE-like features like "jump-to-definition", syntax error highlights, warnings, etc. and integrates with company-mode [1] for code completion. This handles most of my needs for writing code. As for other things like a file tree, I've found that the built in `project-find-file` command combined with `vertico` [2] and `orderless` [3] makes finding files and navigating around projects easier; that pair behaves similarly to CMD+P in Sublime Text or VS Code. There are file tree packages out there, but I've found that I don't really need a file tree in practice and that I prefer navigating around projects with fuzzy file search and grep. [0] https