Installing and Configuring ANYTHING.EL for Emacs

anything.el is an application framework written by TamasPatrovics (current maintainer is rubikitch).
It provides a better way to choose between alternatives when typing a command, switching buffers, searching for help, files, etc.
After you select a candidate option from the list anything provides, you can choose between several actions.

DOWNLOAD ANYTHING
We are going to download anything from its source code repository.
$ cd ~/.emacs.d
$ git clone git://repo.or.cz/anything-config.git

CONFIGURE .emacs FILE

;; Anything.el
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/anything-config/")
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/anything-config/extensions/")
(require 'anything-startup)

That it is enough for using anything:
e.g: M-x anything

Also common functions like switch-to-buffer are automatically remapped to anything ones.


However you could also customize your anything buffers, selecting the anything sources you want:

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