I wrote recently about my enthusiasm for the elfeed feed reader. Here is a microscopic tweak to the way elfeed search filters work to better suit my use.
By default, if I switch to a bookmarked filter to view e.g. my feeds tagged with Emacs (as discussed in the previous post), and then hit s
to run a live filter, I can type something like “Xah” to dynamically narrow the list of stories to those containing that string. The only problem is I actually have to type ” Xah”, i.e. with a space before the filter text, since it is appended to the filter that is already present “+unread +emacs” in this case.
Since life is too short to type extra spaces, I wrote a simple wrapper for the elfeed filter command:
;;insert space before elfeed filter (defun bjm/elfeed-search-live-filter-space () "Insert space when running elfeed filter" (interactive) (let ((elfeed-search-filter (concat elfeed-search-filter " "))) (elfeed-search-live-filter)))
I add this to the elfeed keybindings when I initialise the package
(use-package elfeed :ensure t :bind (:map elfeed-search-mode-map ("A" . bjm/elfeed-show-all) ("E" . bjm/elfeed-show-emacs) ("D" . bjm/elfeed-show-daily) ("/" . bjm/elfeed-search-live-filter-space) ("q" . bjm/elfeed-save-db-and-bury)))
and now I can use /
to filter my articles without needing the extra space.