Navigating in Emacs
It is important to be able to navigate your files easily.
Thanks to the customizability of emacs you can change the default behavior in a few easy steps.
Change your file search to swiper like this:
(global-set-key (kbd "C-s") 'counsel-grep-or-swiper)
Emacs can be extended with many different packages. The concept is called packages and with the following command you can se which packages are available and which are installed.
M-x package-list-packages
This will bring up a list like the following.
Why did I Choose to use Emacs? ... Because its more fun than Minecraft! :) - of course not. But the possibilities on how to use Emacs is fascinating. The thing that caught my interest for Emacs is the simple userinterface on the surface and the massive possibilities the lisp foundation gives you. Emacs is build around the lisp language that gives you the possibility to create macros for everything. Most of the time I work with PHP projects. This welcomes the php-mode package of Emacs.