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Counsel provides the commands ivy-next/previous-line-and-call for this, which by default are bound under C-M-n and C-M-p. Also, for counsel this functionality is requested in this, currently still ope …

For example: (while (search-forward ". " (cdr (bounds-of-thing-at-point 'paragraph)) t) (delete-backward-char 1) (insert "\n\n")) …

You can achieve this by advising evil-ex-search as follows: (advice-add 'evil-ex-search :after #'recenter) …

As it looked to me that it would be handy to use word-at-point (or symbol-at-point) and forward-word (or (forward-symbol 1) if you don't like to break words separated by 'dashes') in the solution, I h …

In response to your request on my first answer, which I would like to preserve (so that users can compare the answers), I am posting here the modified version to get all repeated patterns in one go: ( …

You could use nov's own functionality to search the documents using the following command (obtained by inspecting nov.el's source): (defun nov-search (pattern) (interactive "sEnter search pattern: ") … completing-read "Jump to: " (reverse results)) results nil nil #'string=) (nov-goto-document index) (goto-char point)))) Evaluate the code and do M-x nov-search …

The following function will list all org mode headings in the directories passed to the function (more info in the docstring): (require 'xref) (setq my-search-dirs '("~/.emacs.d" "dir-2")) (defun my-search-heading-across-directories … To search in multiple directories do M-: (my-search-heading-across-projects "~/dir-1" "dir-2") To call it with a list of folders, call it using apply. …

Finally, you can make a search-backward version by changing eobp to bobp and adding a -1 behind forward-line. …

You can toggle helm-follow-mode using C-c C-f within a helm buffer, then when cycling through helm you will see previews of the results. You can switch to the results buffer by typing M-1 and then swi …

of how to replace text in some buffer/file Then evaluate the following snippet of code: (dolist (x '("~/test.txt")) (with-temp-buffer (insert-file-contents-literally x) (print (point)) (search-forward … "an") (let ((start (match-beginning 0))) (delete-region start (search-forward "replace")) (goto-char start) (insert "the result of replacing")) (write-file x))) Of course, like …

EDIT A very basic code example to achieve fuzzy search using a single grep would be: (defun custom-counsel-function (str) (or (ivy-more-chars) (progn (let ((str (split-string str)) … For example, to filter for files that are located in some-path dir-example/file.ext relative from your initial search directory, you could search for the following: ripgrep-pattern -- -g dir*/* …

I am sharing my solution mainly for the comparison with AWK (see comments under NickD's answer), but also because it takes a slightly different approach than the solution by @orgtre: This solution 'it …