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Ivy - a generic completion frontend for Emacs, Swiper - isearch with an overview, and more. Oh, man!
https://oremacs.com/swiper/
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counsel-locate database #3010

Open ghost opened 1 year ago

ghost commented 1 year ago

Is the counsel-locate database automatically update or does one have to perform a manual sudo updatedb in the terminal?

a13 commented 1 year ago

counsel-locate can call updatedb to generate a per-user db (see counsel-locate-db-path defcustom), but only when there's ~/.Private file, which usually means that your home folder is encrypted. But I suppose it should work even if you just create the file (not sure if anything else won't break, though).

ghost commented 1 year ago

Thank you. I will test it out and revert.