emacs-common-denominator

Purpose: make pairing with emacs smoother

Add to your normal emacs init file like this:

(push "~/h/emacs-common-denominator" load-path)
(require 'healthfinch-init)

I put it at the end of the file so that it will override anything conflicting.

Brickbats to ocho.

Features

Uses ido and smex and recentf so that buffer-switching, file-choice, and other commands prompt with likely choices. You don't need to do anything; this just augments existing commands.

Use ag(1) to search files via M-x ag and M-x ag-project.

• M-x ag-project searches everything under the Git root.
• M-x ag searches from a directory of your choice (defaulting to the buffer's current directory).
• Thereafter, "C-x `" (backtick) will pop your cursor to each location in turn.
• Alternately, you can navigate to a line in the buffer and hit RET. That also sets the location for "C-x `".

Install ag with brew install ag.

company-mode is used to provide automatic offers to autocomplete. The offer is in a list. You can move through the list with M-n and M-p (not C-n and C-p) or the arrow keys. You can select - for example - the 5th entry with M-5.

hippie-expand provides autocompleting based on words it's seen in this and other buffers. It seems to pick up words Company-mode doesn't. Complete the word you're typing with [f8].