Further tweaks to helm appearance, now simply take up the full frame
with it's completion UI. When follow mode is enabled, have preview
appear in bottom half of the window.
This reverts helm back to not using posframe, as it is kind of glitchy
and a bit slow. Helm has a built-in posframe like thing, but it doesn't
work quite the way I want, so I might try and sort that out at some
point.
When lsp-mode is enabled, use consult-lsp-file-symbols instead of
consult-imenu, as it yields a more structured list and nicer formatted
symbol results. The result list is identical as lsp-mode updates imenu
with all file symbols, but via imenu they're just not rendered as
nicely.
Use the makefile-executor package instead of helm-make to execute make
targets. But we still rely on helm-make due to it's more efficient
available targets lookup function compared to that of makefile-executor.
Running make targets is bound to C-c C-m now which is nice and fast, and
completes via completing-read, which is currently giving a better
suggested candidates via selectrum+orderless than helm-make does.
And helm-make is still available via the old C-c h m keybinding.
Due to changes to use-package's :custom option, my abuse of it to set
custom variables no longer works and yields errors.
Instead correctly set custom variables with defvar.
A recent change (https://github.com/raxod502/straight.el/pull/558) to
straight.el's use-package integration led to some of my :straight
definitions throwing errors.
When overriding the package name, do not wrap the real name in parens,
for example:
;; bad (no longer works)
(use-package helm-global-bindings
:straight (helm))
;; good (worked before, still works)
(use-package helm-global-bindings
:straight helm)
- Assign `helm-apropos` to `<helm-prefix> d` instead of the default
`<helm-prefix> a`, as that is now taken up by `helm-do-ag`.
- Use the `helpful` package to describe functions and variables.
This involved always loading `helm-config` which sets up
`helm-command-prefix` and `helm-command-map` allowing use-package to set
bindings on the map all without loading anything else until needed.
This is a temporary fix for now, as I prefer lazy-loading packages
whenever possible. However when lazy-loading helm, and then using
use-package to set a keybinding in the helm-command-map before it's
loaded, causes the "m" keybinding to be overridden by the default one
from helm, once helm loads.
I mapped helm-make-projectile to "m" within the helm-command-map, which
replaced helm-man-woman which, so let's make that available as "M"
within the helm-command-map instead.
Smex has not been updated since late 2015. Amx was originally a fork of
smex, but as since evolved much further into it's own thing.
Among other things is supports other completing backends, and ivy with
it's fuzzy matching feels rather nice. I'm keeping ido-mode for
everything else, but specifically for M-x I'll give ivy a try.
