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Tips and tricks

Some tips and tricks that I found throughout the years or that I specifically implemented in pokemacs to make my life easier.

Utility

• M-x window-swap-states: Swaps two windows
• M-l l: Lock the current window
• M-h: Useful hydras (toggles etc)

LSP

M-,: Jumps back to the mark where jumping functions like xref-find-definition or lsp-find-definition

Marks

• C-SPC C-SPC: Put a mark without creating a region
• C-x C-SPC: Go back to the previous mark
• M-g m (consult-mark) or k (consult-global-mark) : List of all local or global marks

Bookmarks (marks++)

Bookmarks are saved between each session and can be named.

• C-x r m: Set a bookmark
• C-x r b: Jump to a bookmark if its name exists or create a new one

Find

• M-p : Go back in history (works with everything that uses the minibuffer like find-file, ripgrep etc. Each command has its own history)
• M-x embark-collect: Groups all the results in the minibuffer in a specific interactive buffer

Rectangle

• C-M-<mouse-1>: rectangular selection

Consult

• #regexp#filter-string: The pattern of a consult input. filter-string is used to filter the results obtained with regexp
• M-RET: Jump to the current result without closing the minibuffer
• M-.: Preview the result at point (useful when unsure about the result)
• <regexp> -- -g *.ml: Limit the search to files ending with .ml
• <regexp> -- -g !pattern: Remove the files corresponding to pattern from the search results

Isearch

• C-g: Deletes the part of the current search that is not matching anything
• M-e: Edit the current search
• M-c (or c once the input can’t be edited): Case sentitivity

Magit

• M-v G: See the last commit that edited the line at point
• When rebasing, v on the hunk at point will reverse it (k in the magit buffer)