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If you’re an Ivy user—and you should be—you’ve probably noticed that sometimes the Ivy prompt will have an initial “^” so that the search will be anchored at the beginning of line. This happens depending on the command that called … Continue reading →

Michael Hunsinger has a very nice tutorial on using Ivy and the associated packages Counsel and Swiper. I’ve been an ardent user of these packages ever since Mike Zamansky turned me onto them with this video. In addition to user-level … Continue reading →

Wilfed Hughes offers this nifty description of Ivy: Ivy 0.9.0 is out! https://t.co/mZ0XcpjOy1 It's a wonderful package that makes many things better without ever being too opinionated. — Wilfred Hughes (@_wilfredh) April 15, 2017 This matches my feelings about it … Continue reading →

If you’re an Ivy user, you’ll be delighted to know that abo-abo has released the latest version, 0.9.0. Take a look at his blog for an overview of what’s new. If you aren’t using Ivy, you should definitely give it … Continue reading →

I’m stuck in my ways and stubborn so even though I use macOS as my primary platform, I have, for years, insisted on compiling all my tools from source myself. The Mac platform has just enough idiosyncrasies to sometimes make … Continue reading →

Since I decided to give swiper, counsel, and ivy a try, I’ve been paying more attention to abo-abo’s posts concerning them. Although I was aware that ivy took control of switch-buffer, I didn’t realize how powerful it is. Abo-abo has … Continue reading →

All of us long term Emacs users have our favorite Emacs features. Sometimes it’s something big. For me that would be Org or Ivy/Counsel/Swiper. Other’s would choose Magit, Dired, Elfeed, or Mu4e. In a sense, those are the easy choices. … Continue reading →

This is a sort of public service announcement. As many of you know, I consider Ivy/Counsel/Swiper to be one of my most valuable packages. It’s a behind the scenes force in almost everything I do in Emacs. If it disappeared, … Continue reading →

Over at Lambda Land, Ashton Wiersdorf opines on what he considers the best Emacs packages. You may agree or disagree with any particular choice in his list but it’s hard to argue that his choices are not reasonable. His list … Continue reading →