My Emacs Workflow For Programming, Notetaking, and Much More

expand-region: This extension is really useful for selecting text. It's like a dwim solution for selecting text. You can repeatedly run the same key-sequence (I use C-=) and select a larger amount of text for every tool.

tempel: This is a package for snippets. You can define text snippets in a lisp-like syntax. It's very conventient for quick snippets like this:

My workflow for large text operations was completely copied from this irreal post. Basically the idea is this:

1. Call grep/rgrep/consult-grep to get a list of every occurrence of the function name. If consult-grep, use embark to export to buffer.
2. Call wgrep so that you can edit the rgrep output and have the results reflected in the original files.
3. Call substitute or query-replace-regexp to change every instance of the function name at once.
4. Quit wgrep, writing the changes back to the files.

Snippets are a really helpful way of reducing time spent retyping the same things over and over again. I use snippets for common phrases and elisp functions that I type often.

Eglot just works, and it's built into Emacs. I mainly use it with clangd for C++. I don't really need it for other langs.

Org mode is one of the pillars of Emacs. It is not just a markdown clone

tmr is a simple package for managing timers. I use it to tell when I need to get up and walk around after studying for around 60 min.

elfeed-org and goodies

As I stated in my opinionated list of programs, I like to