Emacs tip of the day: learn apropos. https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Apropos.html It's a brilliant way of searching functions/variabales/docstrings etc.
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I'm increasingly treating terminal sessions as short lived: starting a fresh terminal tab keeps scrollback short and easy to search.
I'd love to have a terminal emulator that allows me to skip over output of specific verbose commands when searching.
I'm experimenting with Atuin for searching my terminal history: https://atuin.sh/
Previously I'd just used fzf to find items, which does work nicely. Occasionally I *really* want to search "commands which were run in this directory" though, which Atuin offers.
I've written an #emacs plugin for searching for text with ripgrep: https://github.com/Wilfred/deadgrep
rg is a fantastic search tool, and deadgrep.el includes everything I've learnt with several hundred users of ag.el!
