I use consult-ripgrep to do the search, which shows me a live preview of the match candidates. If I want to make a buffer with all the results, I call embark-act then embark-export to dump the results into a buffer.
I detail this workflow (including editing the matches!) here on my blog, which should have more details if you're lost.
Auctex is a notoriously tricky package to get built.
I've been a Fastmail user for several years now. I use the masked mail feature extensively. I love controlling my own email domains. Support is 10/10. Very reliable service.
This is my current config: set TERM to "xterm", and fix the otherwise impossible-to-see ANSI blue:
(use-package eat
:custom
(eat-term-name "xterm")
:custom-face
(ansi-color-bright-blue ((t (:foreground "#00afff" :background "#00afff"))))
:config
(evil-set-initial-state 'eat-mode 'emacs)
(eat-eshell-mode)
(eat-eshell-visual-command-mode))
I had to use Davmail to get it to work. Now I forward everything, so I don't run Davmail anymore, but it worked well enough while I needed it: https://lambdaland.org/posts/2023-05-03_email_with_outlook/
Oooooooooohhhhhhhhhh… I can run things like cal or julia and it handles all the escape codes seamlessly. Wow. Totally sold now.
Thank you! That's helpful. I'm a little confused: what benefit does turning the eshell buffer into an eat terminal give you? Better perf? I'm still new to eshell and stuff.
Tooting my own horn here—you might like looking at my starter kit "Bedrock" which is a minimal set of defaults to make Emacs not look so dumpy. :) Take from it what you'd like.