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Configurations, package recommendations, and small things worth trying.

These configurations use use-package, built into Emacs 29 and later; install it separately on older versions. :ensure nil uses a built-in package. :ensure t installs an external package from your configured archives, so choose archives you trust.

• Let Eglot do the introductions

  Connect a project to an installed language server.

  HBy Henrik Kjerringvåg

  built-in / development / eglot / language-server

• Documentation where you are

  See documentation for the thing at point.

  HBy Henrik Kjerringvåg

  built-in / development / documentation / eglot

• Catch the small mistakes early

  See buffer diagnostics without leaving Emacs.

  HBy Henrik Kjerringvåg

  built-in / development / diagnostics / eglot

• Give completion a little room

  Read minibuffer candidates in a vertical list.

  HBy Henrik Kjerringvåg

  built-in / completion / minibuffer

• Pick up where you left off

  Reopen a file at the position you last visited.

  HBy Henrik Kjerringvåg

  built-in / files

• Magit

  Understand a change before you commit it.

  HBy Henrik Kjerringvåg

  git / version-control

• Give a command an encore

  Repeat related commands without repeating the whole key sequence.

  HBy Henrik Kjerringvåg

  built-in / navigation

• Keep the minibuffer's memory

  Keep minibuffer history between Emacs sessions.

  HBy Henrik Kjerringvåg

  built-in / history / minibuffer

• Let the next key come to you

  Pause after a prefix key to see what you can press next.

  HBy Henrik Kjerringvåg

  built-in / discovery / keybindings / which-key

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