Glad to see you again! Three extra related tips: 1. For SPC J J, jumping to a word on the screen by typing letters, I use two shortcuts to access the feature a little faster. , as in search, and as in word, with the function to jump to a word or symbol by typing its first letter. These features come from a package called avy, and allow you to search any open window on screen, not just the active window. In my user-config function I have: (define-key evil-normal-state-map (kbd "M-s") #'avy-goto-char-timer) (define-key evil-normal-state-map (kbd "M-w") #'avy-goto-word-1) 2. Almost all the search systems shown on the video use helm, so searches are fuzzy, and you can use multiple search patterns separated by a space. 3. For jumping to definition (, g g in Python, g D to open the definition in another window in general) and features to jump around the codebase, it may get a little slow with large codebases. That's where you can use tools to generate tags. SPC p G (Project Generate tags) will generate a static database of your code, giving you instant search for variables, classes, and functions in your entire codebase. Depending on the setup, it can also give you the places where a given function is being used, etc. You can use the ggtags package, and install GNU global (sudo apt-install global on debian Linux) and Pygments (pip install pygments) to get tags for python. github.com/leoliu/ggtags So Jack, when are we doing a video collab? 🙂
Woah. Those are some awesome additions. Thanks @GDQuest. Let me get back to a reasonable release cadence and we'll talk about a colab 😅. My wife still reminds me about the Python video I promised you.
Y'all gotta collab! I've been mainlining both of your vids like some kind of addict for the past week or so and it's gotten me from 0-60 in Spacemacs stupid fast (thankfully coming from Vim keybindings, which is easily half the battle). You two are doing gods work!
Don't see any problems with quality of this video - it is still better then 99% then the rest of the stuff out there :) At least for me it was easy to follow, not boring at all - can't complain. So it is definitely a right compromise to save your time and keep making these videos. Keep it up and thanks for your work!
Really appreciate you putting in the time to make these. Congrats on the forked process! My 2c: we don't lack quality of these type of videos on the tubes.... we lack quantity! And the quality of your video is such that I don't think people will mind. Thanks again!
That's an interesting take. I started the channel because of the lack of quantity on specific topics but one of my biggest fears was putting out videos where the text is too small, or you can hear me breath, or the sound makes ears bleed, or possibly the worst offender... dead air while the presenter waits for something to install... My one commitment is to not have any of these features in my videos, even for the more relaxed longer ones. I just needed to shed the extra flair I was adding (e.g. lemme zoom very close to the area of the screen I'm talking about)
Congratulations! And you keep making them and I'll keep watching them. You make really informative and nice videos and I have always appreciated them no matter what. Thank you. :)
Been using spacemacs for a long time and still learned stuff! Thank you. C-w is a useful shortcut in helm ag to fill the search with symbol under cursor.
Great video! I would like to mention SPC f r to search and re-open recent files also. I think you did not mention it in the video but I use it very frequently
I really like your videos - very clear (what makes me consistently think that I should use emacs but sadly for multiple times ended up not being able to figure something out and switched back to nvim)! I heard that Spacemacs is somewhat bloated, have you consider using doom emacs? I'd also love to see programming in python with your settings and workflow for the following videos! esp with how to set up repl if possible :) Thanks and really great work!
I have tried doom a few times and I really like it but there's some very subtle differences between it and Spacemacs which keep me from diving in deeper (it's a question of how much productivity I'm willing to sacrifice to try out something new). I've been meaning to do a tutorial on Spacemacs with python, maybe it'll be soon. I'll probably also do a tutorial on VSpaceCode as an alternative to Spacemacs soon.
@@JackofSome wow I did not know VSpaceCode! I also like VSCode a lot for many of the extensions but it still requires using mouse and/or arrow key from time to time for navigation (even with the VIM extension) which I do not like. Would love to see how VSpaceCode could make a difference! My work has a lot to do with implementing and tuning models, so the workflow goes like selecting some pieces of code -> sending to repl for evaluation and getting results (or plots) -> modifying the code and repeat. Tried spacemacs, vscode, neovim but they all have some glitches somewhere. Still looking for solutions and hope to learn from your setting!
Very nice video - thank you very much. Since you asked for suggestions: I am switching from plain Emacs to Spacemacs, and I am having trouble of operating in editing vs command modes (The cursor helps). Often I will find myself typing text when in command mode. Not a good idea. What I am looking for is a tutorial/video showing how a seasoned vi/vim/spacemacs user switches betwee the two while working on a file. Thanks, and best wishes with your new baby.
It's a little bit difficult to teach that aspect of things. I've been meaning to do a Vim tutorial but what it'll get you is to basics, and not really help with it becoming second nature. I would suggest thinking back to when you learned Emacs. How long did it take for you to completely transition from using the arrow keys to keeping your hands on to home row? It's gonna take similar effort here. Do some more tutorials, maybe try some of the online vim tutor things, and eventually it'll become second nature :)
I use i3 and put my most used windows in a scratch pad (essentially like a minimize) so I can summon them at a keypress. This was bringing up org mode so I could review my outline as in recorded.
i am currently working with graphql. to get some syntax i use package install command and then select graphql-mode but when i restart emacs this is lost and i have to reinstall again. how to properly install packages with spacemacs any tips on that.
