An Emacs library that extends the functionality of the ivy and counsel packages by providing extra utilities and commands.

• About
• Requirements
• Installation
  • With use-package and straight.el
  • Manual installation
• Usage
  • Extended commands
  • File commands
  • Imenu commands
  • Describe commands
  • Bookmark commands
  • Misc commands
• Customization

The package requires Emacs 27.1 or later, as well as the ivy and counsel packages (version 0.13.4 or later).

(use-package counsel-extra
  :straight (:repo "KarimAziev/counsel-extra"
                   :type git
                   :host github)
  :hook ((ivy-mode . counsel-extra-add-extra-actions)
         (counsel-mode . counsel-extra-configure-find-file))
  :bind ((:map counsel-extra-M-x-keymap
               ("C-c o" . counsel-extra-M-X-find-symbol-in-other-window-cmd))
         (:map counsel-extra-bookmark-map
               ("C-c o" . counsel-extra-bookmark-in-other-window))))

Download the source code and put it wherever you like, e.g. into ~/.emacs.d/counsel-extra/

git clone https://github.com/KarimAziev/counsel-extra.git ~/.emacs.d/counsel-extra/

Add the downloaded directory to the load path:

(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/counsel-extra/")
(require 'counsel-extra)

These commands are expected to be bound in the counsel-mode-map.

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• counsel-extra-M-x - Extra version of execute-extended-command.
• counsel-extra-list-processes - Offer completion for process-list. The default action is to switch to the process buffer. An extra action allows to delete the selected process.
• counsel-extra-colors-emacs - Show a list of all supported colors for a particular frame. Unlike `counsel-colors-emacs’ it is allows to define extra commands in it’s keymap - `counsel-extra-emacs-colors-map’.

These commands are expected to be bound in the counsel-find-file-map.

• M-x counsel-extra-open-file-other-window - Quit the minibuffer and call find-file-other-window action.
• M-x counsel-extra-move-file - Quit the minibuffer and call counsel-find-file-move action.
• M-x counsel-extra-delete-file - Quit the minibuffer and call counsel-find-file-delete action.
• M-x counsel-extra-copy-file - Quit the minibuffer and call counsel-find-file-copy action.
• M-x counsel-extra-dired - Open file in Dired.
• M-x counsel-extra-expand-dir-done - Visit or preview currently selected directory or file. If it is a valid directory, visit it and stay in minibuffer, otervise

execute default ivy action and exit minibuffer.

• M-x counsel-extra-expand-dir-maybe - Visit or preview currently selected directory or file and stay in minibuffer. If it is not a valid directory, preview the file.

These commands are expected to be bound in the counsel-imenu-map.

• M-x counsel-extra-imenu-insert-cmd - Quit the minibuffer and insert imenu item.
• M-x counsel-extra-imenu-jump-to-item-in-other-window - Jump to imenu item in other window

This command is supposed to be bound to counsel-describe-map.

• M-x counsel-extra-find-symbol-in-other-window - find symbol in other window and exit minibuffer.

• M-x counsel-extra-bookmark - Forward to bookmark-jump or bookmark-set if the bookmark doesn’t exist.
• M-x counsel-extra-bookmark-in-other-window - Open bookmark in another window.

These commands are expected to be bound in the ivy-minibuffer-map.

Whether to align command descriptions. If nil, don’t align, if integer align to those column.