Elescope

Overview

Most of programming lies in other people’s code, and in Emacs. Elescope brings you the best of both by allowing you to quickly search and clone any project found on the supported forges (only GitHub at the moment but contributions are welcome).

This package uses ivy and request.

Usage

Installation:

1. Elescope is available on MELPA, otherwise copy the elescope.el file somewhere in your path and load it straight into your Emacs.
2. customize-variable elescope-root-folder to tell Elescope where to clone;
3. elescope-checkout.

For reference, this is the entry in my init file:

(use-package elescope
  :ensure t
  :config
  (setf elescope-root-folder "~/build/"
        elescope-clone-depth nil
        elescope-use-full-path t))

See below for a list of configuration options.

Configuration

elescope-root-folder

Where to clone repos. No default set.

elescope-clone-depth

How deep should the repos be cloned. Defaults to 1 so all clones are shallow.

elescope-use-full-path

If non-nil, use the full project path including username/organisation to clone: cloning john/foo and john/bar results in:

└── <elescope_root_folder>
    └── john
        ├── bar
        └── foo

as opposed to the default, flat hierarchy:

└── <elescope_root_folder>
    ├── foo
    └── bar

elescope-github-token

Token to use for identification on GitHub. This allows you to clone private repos you have access to.

elescope-query-delay

How long to wait before considering the minibuffer input a valid query. This helps avoid firing a query for every single letter typed. Defaults to 0.7 sec and can be set to any value understood by `run-at-time’.”

See also

Previous art:

• github-clone.el.