magnars/s.el

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1073 stars · 98 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

s.el is a string manipulation library for Emacs written in Emacs Lisp, providing a comprehensive set of functions for trimming, splitting, joining, padding, truncating, and testing strings. It is available on MELPA and designed as a convenient API layer over Emacs's built-in string operations.

Use cases

• manipulate strings in emacs lisp code
• trim and pad strings in emacs
• split and join strings in elisp
• check if a string starts with or ends with a prefix or suffix
• truncate long strings for display in emacs
• extract regexp matches from strings in elisp

When to choose

• you write Emacs Lisp packages and want readable string helpers instead of raw built-ins
• you need consistent, well-tested string utilities across your Emacs configuration
• you want a small dependency available directly from MELPA

When to avoid

• you are not working in Emacs or Emacs Lisp
• you only need one or two string operations that built-in Emacs functions already cover
• you need unicode-heavy or locale-aware text processing beyond simple manipulation

Facets

library · maturity stable

developer-tools developer-tools text-editors editor-plugin emacs emacs-lisp string-manipulation melpa text-processing

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