Tools

Magit is an innovative package that provides an amazing interface over git. The complexity of its UI is completely hidden away thanks to another package born out of Magit called Transient. Transient is so innovative that it was added to emacs core in 2021. Understanding at least the basics of Transient can provide alot of value in building tools to enhance various workflows. From the official manual Transient is the library used to implement the keyboard-driven “menus” in Magit. It is distributed as a separate package, so that it can be used to implement similar menus in other packages. ...

Prodigy is an incredible tool of convenience for me. I’ve been slowly migrating my entire workflow into Emacs and Prodigy has become a staple in my day to day. What is Prodigy? Manage external services from within Emacs I came up with the idea when I got to work one Monday morning and before I could start working I had to manually start ten or so services. To get rid of this tedious work, I started working on this Emacs plugin, which provides a nice and simple GUI to manage services. ...

Run Command is a really nifty Emacs package that abstracts away running arbitrary shell commands into a nice ivy or helm (or other completion frameworks) frontend. I saw a few of the examples and immediately got an idea for using it to build an RSpec watch mode. It’s a tiny optimization to my work flow as re-running the test command is just a few keystrokes in of itself, but getting automated feedback means I get to focus on other things while writing tests. ...