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 10:08:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <672a0d66-bc48-4b7a-9279-c7d631a03f79@googlegroups.com> References: <787f8d86-dede-4627-b4e5-3658a1833455@googlegroups.com> <73520ac0-9fc0-42ce-8a15-cc400b6f8308@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1409332226 17556 80.91.229.3 (29 Aug 2014 17:10:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 17:10:26 +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 19:10:19 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 1XNPgp-0005gP-D6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Aug 2014 19:10:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43375 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XNPgo-0000ME-PL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Aug 2014 13:10:18 -0400 X-Received: by 10.224.169.20 with SMTP id w20mr6479266qay.4.1409332104238; Fri, 29 Aug 2014 10:08:24 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.51.17.69 with SMTP id gc5mr125401igd.0.1409332103906; Fri, 29 Aug 2014 10:08:23 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!i13no4182715qae.1!news-out.google.com!aw9ni0igc.0!nntp.google.com!uq10no6826728igb.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 17:08:23 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:207242 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:99519 Archived-At: >=20 > Okay. I have a different view here (and your description of flx >=20 > requiring to precisely remenbering the structure of your target is not >=20 > accurate, in my experience.) I would never switch from ido+flx if the >=20 > alternative does nor provide the same fuzzy matching capabilities. After >=20 > investigating a bit, the bad news is that incorporating flx into helm is >=20 > not easy at all. The good news is that there are a significant interest >=20 > on doing it, including flx's author. Let's see how this evolves. >=20 >=20 >=20 > Thanks for answering my questions. Consider this path: arch/x86/boot/main.c Can you type the file name first: "main.c", then add "x86" to get the corre= ct file above? I'm pretty sure ido+flx can't do that, but maybe I'm missing= something. With Helm, you can simply specify "mai x86" and it narrows to 3 candidates = with the above path at the top. The file is in Linux kernel source. Maybe you misunderstood my statement about precise remembering project stru= cture. What I meant was you have to remember the correct path ordering, and= that requires you to be familiar with the directory structure. Whlie in He= lm, I'm completely new to a directory and simply know nothing about directo= ry structure. With Helm, I can start pop up questions like "is there a main= .c that is relate to x86 arch?" and so on.