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