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Find stuff in org-mode anywhere (2017)

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There’s also the fantastic deft mode for Emacs, which performs full text incremental search on a folder full of files: https://jblevins.org/projects/deft/

Very fast (for my current scale of use, ~hundreds of files), and very easy to use.

> Full text search ... I found the database got a little sluggish, and nearly 1/2 a GB in size when using it so I am leaving it out for now.

That's surprising, I did solve the same problem for my org-mode client (https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash) but using the full text search capabilities of sqlite. I was amazed by its performance, not sluggish at all and could handle anything I'd throw at it, especially with a number of files that doesn't go much above the thousand. Here is what the code look like from a sqlite perspective: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash/blob/f5f0f30cea...

Had high hopes for the VSCode version [0]

Unfortunately it seems to have lost momentum.

[0] https://github.com/vscode-org-mode/vscode-org-mode

Me too. Although I don't use VS Code, as I am an Emacs enthusiast, I hope Org becomes independent of Emacs so that it becomes more widely used.

It'd be great if they could develop a little standard. Right now the code is the standard. And till a few versions ago, things changed frequently and complex stuff like table formulas were a bit buggy in corner cases.

WHat's wrong with using emacs only for org mode if you use vsode for coding?

You can just have an emacs open and switch to it if you want to note down something or look something up.

The overhead of installing and maintaining emacs is sooo high if you want it to be as easily usable as vscode.

It takes me hours to remember how to use emacs every time I come back to it, and to make it any easier means adding more and more extensions which break and have to be maintained as well.

A vscode extension is plug and play. All actions are easily visible by default. There is no maintenance.

Have you tried spacemacs?

https://www.spacemacs.org/

If you don't want evil-mode you can disable it on first start.

Yes, spacemacs with evil-mode and the hinting extension is one of the approaches I was referring to when I mentioned them breaking and requiring maintenance.

I would use a hierarchy categorization aka a file system. And if you cant locate a file by category - Modern SSD drives will blast through a couple of thousand text files using "find in files" utilities. Then I would use gdrive, dropbox et al for backup only! considering how slow those networkes drivers are ( Accessing files from a local ssd will be 10000x faster then reading them from Gdrive)

That's basically my approach. Ripgrep and existing (more structured) org search functions work instantly on SSD. I describe it here https://beepb00p.xyz/pkm-search.html

I simply use org-rifle for searching. It's great: https://github.com/alphapapa/org-rifle

I love org mode, but I find emacs word wrapping weird - if I yank it yanks the visual line, but I expect it to do all. I suspect whatever my init is currently is not correct, I’d love to see others’ configs in regards to wrapping

> if I yank it yanks the visual line, but I expect it to do all

I'm not sure what's the problem with yanking, but probably you want the behavior of kill-whole-line bound to C-M-backspace by default.

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Ki...

Smos had built-in querying^^

https://smos.cs-syd.eu

If only “org-mode” was defined in the article!

https://orgmode.org

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