This video is all about using incremental search to navigate through your emacs buffers.

You can use the default incremental searchb, bound to C-s for isearch-forward C-r to search backwards (reverse).

They work really well as is but I prefer using Swiper. The video demos both and the Swiper home page has loads of details.

Part of the Swiper package includes ivy and counsel which I use instead of ido.

The video also mentions lorem-ipsum mode for generating text quickly and describe-mode in the help system.

Here's the code we added for swiper:

;; it looks like counsel is a requirement for swiper (use-package counsel :ensure t ) (use-package swiper :ensure try :config (progn (ivy-mode 1 ) (setq ivy-use-virtual-buffers t ) (global-set-key "\C-s" 'swiper ) (global-set-key (kbd "C-c C-r" ) 'ivy-resume ) (global-set-key (kbd "<f6>" ) 'ivy-resume ) (global-set-key (kbd "M-x" ) 'counsel-M-x ) (global-set-key (kbd "C-x C-f" ) 'counsel-find-file ) (global-set-key (kbd "<f1> f" ) 'counsel-describe-function ) (global-set-key (kbd "<f1> v" ) 'counsel-describe-variable ) (global-set-key (kbd "<f1> l" ) 'counsel-load-library ) (global-set-key (kbd "<f2> i" ) 'counsel-info-lookup-symbol ) (global-set-key (kbd "<f2> u" ) 'counsel-unicode-char ) (global-set-key (kbd "C-c g" ) 'counsel-git ) (global-set-key (kbd "C-c j" ) 'counsel-git-grep ) (global-set-key (kbd "C-c k" ) 'counsel-ag ) (global-set-key (kbd "C-x l" ) 'counsel-locate ) (global-set-key (kbd "C-S-o" ) 'counsel-rhythmbox ) ( define-key read-expression-map (kbd "C-r" ) 'counsel-expression-history ) ))

and we commented out the ido stuff:

;; using swiper so ido no longer needed ;;(setq ido-enable-flex-matching t) ;;(setq ido-everywhere t) ;;(ido-mode 1)

If you want to see a nice video specifically on swiper by the author, here it is:

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