From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: solidius4747@gmail.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: A package in a league of its own: Helm Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 07:03:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <2c9a11be-3c55-418b-aa14-6e24cd2dd547@googlegroups.com> References: <787f8d86-dede-4627-b4e5-3658a1833455@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1409321126 27843 80.91.229.3 (29 Aug 2014 14:05:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 14:05:26 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 29 16:05:21 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XNMnn-0003Hz-OD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Aug 2014 16:05:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42171 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XNMnn-0003IB-7H for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Aug 2014 10:05:19 -0400 X-Received: by 10.236.17.234 with SMTP id j70mr5915396yhj.26.1409320996270; Fri, 29 Aug 2014 07:03:16 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.114.69 with SMTP id je5mr94657igb.1.1409320996055; Fri, 29 Aug 2014 07:03:16 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!i13no4140852qae.1!news-out.google.com!aw9ni0igc.0!nntp.google.com!uq10no6759741igb.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=14.161.13.65; posting-account=c2AWuQoAAACA36o69JJJEmXY5MOg4YNp Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 14.161.13.65 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 14:03:16 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:207236 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:99511 Archived-At: V=C3=A0o 20:36:32 UTC+7 Th=E1=BB=A9 s=C3=A1u, ng=C3=A0y 29 th=C3=A1ng t=C3= =A1m n=C4=83m 2014, =C3=93scar Fuentes =C4=91=C3=A3 vi=E1=BA=BFt: > solidius4747@gmail.com writes: >=20 >=20 >=20 > > I wrote a guide for Helm here: http://tuhdo.github.io/helm-intro.html >=20 > > >=20 > > Hope it help with your Helm usage if you are new to Helm. >=20 >=20 >=20 > Helm looks impressive. >=20 >=20 >=20 > I have a mature completion environment around ido+flx. One of the killer >=20 > features is to quickly navigate huge lists of completion candidates. For >=20 > instance, while on a git repo a command allows me to locate a versioned >=20 > file, typically taking about 2 seconds for a tree containing tens of >=20 > thousands of files. The command is very simple to implement (9 lines). >=20 >=20 >=20 > How difficult is to add a new completion command to helm? Such as >=20 > providing it with a list of strings and complete on it? >=20 >=20 >=20 > Can helm use other completion matching methods, such as flx? I regard >=20 > flx as more convenient than helm's default matching system. Helm is quite fast. I tried it on the Linux kernel, and Helm can display al= l 46678 files and navigation (like move to next/previous line or /) is still fast, but not feel as "smooth". If you have anything under 3= 0000 candidates, everything behaves normally. You can try with Projectile u= sing projectile-find-file to list all files. Be sure to set helm-candidate-= number-limit to 30000 and set projectile-completion-system to Helm. You may also interest in "Why Helm is powerful" section