{"id":9340,"date":"2020-12-11T16:38:30","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T21:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=9340"},"modified":"2020-12-11T16:38:30","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T21:38:30","slug":"bozhidar-batsovs-favorite-packages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=9340","title":{"rendered":"Bozhidar Batsov’s Favorite Packages"},"content":{"rendered":"

We all have our favorite Emacs packages. I\u2019ve written about mine a few times (1<\/a>, 2<\/a>, 3<\/a>). A few packages make almost everyone\u2019s list. There\u2019s Magit and Org-mode, of course. Many people say at least one of those is the reason that they use Emacs. Another common favorite is which-key<\/a>. If you\u2019re not using it, you should be.<\/p>\n

Bozhidar Batsov has his own favorites list<\/a>. He limited himself to five packages but even so his list and mine have significant overlap. He also has an \u201cHonorable Mentions\u201d list that provides even more overlap.<\/p>\n

Our biggest disagreement is on the Swiper\/Counsel package. Oddly, he likes Ivy but uses Swiper and Counsel so seldom that he\u2019s switched Ivy out for Selectrum<\/a>, a lighter weight Ivy-like package that doesn\u2019t include the Swiper and Counsel functionality. Outside of Org-mode, the Ivy\/Swiper\/Counsel package is my most important. I use it hundreds of times a day and my workflow absolutely depends on it.<\/p>\n

Of course, that\u2019s the fun of these lists: you get to see what other people think is important and maybe learn about a useful package you weren\u2019t using. In any event, it\u2019s always worthwhile listening to what Batsov thinks is important so take a look at his post if you haven\u2019t already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We all have our favorite Emacs packages. I\u2019ve written about mine a few times (1, 2, 3). A few packages make almost everyone\u2019s list. There\u2019s Magit and Org-mode, of course. Many people say at least one of those is the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-9340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-emacs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9341,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9340\/revisions\/9341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}