Doom-emacs: Question - SPC+.... functionality

[rsangole]

Hello,

Fantastic work! I'm just getting into emacs (short-medium time VIM user) and have been exploring various installations - spacemacs, buildfunthings, or your setup. I like things from all of these setups, and am inclined to build me own. I'm primarily an R/Python coder and thus I have some special cases I want to customize to.

To that end, the functionality where:

1. We press SPC and the menu pops up at the bottom with shortcuts
2. We start typing in M-x and it gives a continuously reducing list

Are these scripts you've written yourself, or are these packages I can import in a new emacs setup?

Thanks for all your (obsessively delightfully detailed) work!

[hlissner]

Thank you! And you're very welcome!

The functionality you've listed are both provided by plugins:

1) The shortcut popup comes from the which-key plugin. You'll find Doom's config for it here in core/core-keybinds.el.

2) The completion functionality you see on M-x is provided by a combination of ivy and counsel, both plugins are housed in the same repository. Ivy provides the interactive fuzzy searching that you described, and counsel provides more specialized integration with commands where using ivy makes sense (like M-x).

However, the _bare minimum_ you need for this to work is ivy:

elisp (require 'ivy) (ivy-mode)

And you should get what you see in Doom.

You'll find doom's config for ivy/counsel in the completion/ivy module.

Hope that helps!

[hlissner]

Oh, I suppose i should mention, if all you want is the interactive fuzzy search in M-x, there's also the ido-vertical plugin, which is much simpler than ivy.

[rsangole]

Super! I'm going to try it out myself.

Your shortcuts for the todo/notes is also a great addition.

Ok, now I'm questioning if I should even bother trying things out on my own. 😃

[rsangole]

On pressing SPC, there is ~2s delay on my laptop. Is that a processing issue, or is that a feature that can be tuned someplace?

[ghost]

That is a which-key variable. You can set the delay to 0 by placing this in your init.el file:
(setq which-key-idle-delay 0)

[rsangole]

@nealot lovely, worked perfectly

[hlissner]

Since the original question has been answered, I'll close this, but feel free to use this thread if you have more questions.

(@nealot Thanks for your response!)