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Emacs — Packages — Making My Life Easier

• Making my life easier
  • Bufler
  • Helpful

Making my life easier

Bufler

Bufler is a package that organises and lists buffers in a much better way than how they are usually sorted. You can easily and quickly find buffers by their group, not only by their name, and THIS is great news! Also, no helm please! And for some reason, the keybindings are borked by default, so let’s redefine them, and let’s also rebind SPC to p since it would conflict with my main general prefix.

(use-package bufler
  :straight (bufler :build t
                    :files (:defaults (:exclude "helm-bufler.el")))
  :defer t
  :general
  (phundrak/evil
   :keymaps  'bufler-list-mode-map
   :packages 'bufler
   "?"   #'hydra:bufler/body
   "g"   #'bufler
   "f"   #'bufler-list-group-frame
   "F"   #'bufler-list-group-make-frame
   "N"   #'bufler-list-buffer-name-workspace
   "k"   #'bufler-list-buffer-kill
   "p"   #'bufler-list-buffer-peek
   "s"   #'bufler-list-buffer-save
   "RET" #'bufler-list-buffer-switch))

Helpful

As the name tells, helpful is a really helpful package which greatly enhances a couple of built-in functions from Emacs, namely:

Vanilla Emacs Function	Helpful Function	Comment
describe-function	helpful-callable	Only interactive functions
describe-function	helpful-function	Only actual functions (including interactive)
describe-function	helpful-macro
describe-command	helpful-command
describe-key	helpful-key
describe-variable	helpful-variable

(use-package helpful
  :straight (:build t)
  :after (counsel ivy)
  :custom
  (counsel-describe-function-function #'helpful-callable)
  (counsel-describe-variable-function #'helpful-variable)
  :bind
  ([remap describe-function] . counsel-describe-function)
  ([remap describe-command]  . helpful-command)
  ([remap describe-variable] . counsel-describe-variable)
  ([remap describe-key]      . helpful-key))