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Ivy Initial Input String

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

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Ivy and Internal Org Links

Last month, Ben Maughan wrote a very nice post on how to insert internal Org links. The problem he was solving was that he wants to insert an internal link to one of the headers in his Org file. That’s … Continue reading

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Tutorial on Ivy, Counsel, and Swiper

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

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Ivy Described

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

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Ivy 0.9.0

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

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The Silver Searcher, Ivy-occur, and Swiper

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

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Ivy Switch Buffer

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

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Red Meat Friday: Reaching New Heights In Illegibility

The other night I was enjoying a sound, dreamless sleep when at 3 AM there was pounding on my bedroom door and the minions started jumping up and down on my bed. “Mrrflx. Wha? Wha’s happening?” It turns out the … Continue reading

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Emacs Search and Replace

Protesilaos Stavrou (Prot) has a really, really excellent video on the Emacs search/replace functionality. Except for a short section at the end, it doesn’t consider external packages; it’s about the default functionality. Although Prot says the video considers only the … Continue reading

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Warp Refactoring With Emacs

Ashton Wiersdorf has a very interesting post on refactoring in Emacs. His problem is a simple one: we wants to replace all occurrences of set_XXX_config! (where XXX varies) to config_XXX! for all files in a directory. He uses several packages … Continue reading

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