Evil Collection is also installed since it adds 'evil' bindings to parts of Emacs that the standard Evil package does not cover, such as: calendar, help-mode and ibuffer.
[[https://github.com/noctuid/general.el][general.el]] provides a more convenient way to bind keys in emacs for both evil and non-evil users. ~general-define-key~ allows defining multiple keys at once, implicitly wrapping key strings with (kbd ...), having named prefix key sequences (like the leader key in vim), and more.
~ivy-mode~ ensures that any Emacs command using ~completing-read-function~ uses ivy for completion. Counsel takes this further, providing versions of common Emacs commands that are customised to make the best use of Ivy. For example, ~counsel-find-file~ has some additional keybindings. Pressing ~DEL~ will move you to the parent directory.
[[https://github.com/bbatsov/projectile][Projectile]] is a project interaction library for Emacs. Its goal is to provide a nice set of features operating on a project level without introducing external dependencies (when feasible). For instance - finding project files has a portable implementation written in pure Emacs Lisp without the use of GNU ~find~ (but for performance sake an indexing mechanism backed by external commands exists as well).
[[https://github.com/bbatsov/projectile][Projectile]] has native support for using [[https://github.com/abo-abo/swiper][ivy]] as its completion system. [[https://github.com/ericdanan/counsel-projectile][Counsel-projectile]] provides further ivy integration into projectile by taking advantage of ivy's support for selecting from a list of actions and applying an action without leaving the completion session. Concretely, counsel-projectile defines replacements for existing projectile commands as well as new commands that have no projectile counterparts. A minor mode is also provided that adds key bindings for all these commands on top of the projectile key bindings.
#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(use-package counsel-projectile
:after projectile
:config
(counsel-projectile-mode))
#+end_src
** Git
*** Magit
[[https://magit.vc/][Magit]] is a complete text-based user interface to Git. It fills the glaring gap between the Git command-line interface and various GUIs, letting you perform trivial as well as elaborate version control tasks with just a couple of mnemonic key presses.
[[https://orgmode.org/][Org]] is a highly flexible structured plain text file format, composed of a few simple, yet versatile, structures — constructed to be both simple enough for the novice and powerful enough for the expert.
#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(defun efs/org-mode-setup ()
(org-indent-mode)
(variable-pitch-mode 1)
(visual-line-mode 1))
(use-package org
:hook
(org-mode . efs/org-mode-setup)
:config
(setq org-ellipsis " ▾"))
#+end_src
** Heading Bullets
[[https://github.com/sabof/org-bullets][org-bullets]] shows org-mode bullets as UTF-8 characters.
[[https://github.com/joostkremers/visual-fill-column][visual-fill-column-mode]] is a small Emacs minor mode that mimics the effect of ~fill-column~ in ~visual-line-mode~. Instead of wrapping lines at the window edge, which is the standard behaviour of ~visual-line-mode~, it wraps lines at ~fill-column~. If ~fill-column~ is too large for the window, the text is wrapped at the window edge.
To execute or export code in ~org-mode~ code blocks, you’ll need to set up ~org-babel-load-languages~ for each language you’d like to use. [[https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/languages.html][This page]] documents all of the languages that you can use with ~org-babel~.
With just a few keystrokes, it is possible to insert empty [[https://orgmode.org/manual/Structure-Templates.html][structural blocks]], such as ~#+BEGIN_SRC~ … ~#+END_SRC~, or to wrap existing text in such a block.
