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 08:06:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <73520ac0-9fc0-42ce-8a15-cc400b6f8308@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 1409325026 16316 80.91.229.3 (29 Aug 2014 15:10:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 15:10:26 +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 17:10:21 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 1XNNoh-0002Xo-JA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Aug 2014 17:10:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42505 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XNNoh-0007UR-0Q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Aug 2014 11:10:19 -0400 X-Received: by 10.52.1.233 with SMTP id 9mr6111681vdp.5.1409324779393; Fri, 29 Aug 2014 08:06:19 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.142.37 with SMTP id rt5mr104786igb.9.1409324779260; Fri, 29 Aug 2014 08:06:19 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!i13no4155536qae.1!news-out.google.com!aw9ni0igc.0!nntp.google.com!uq10no6782970igb.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 15:06:19 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:207238 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:99513 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 >=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. It should be easy. I've never tried to provide custom source but if you use= existing Helm sources, it's very easy to craft your own. For me, I prefer = Helm's way. That is, I can directly enter a filename, and narrow down it la= ter if more than one candidates are displayed. Compared with ido + flx, I h= ave to precisely remember the structure of something and enter it follow th= e correct order. For example, I can enter test.c and hundreds of them might= exist. I can narrow down further by specifying the path incrementally late= r. With Ido, I always have to remember the path for fuzzy completion. Helm = gives me greater flexibility; with flexibility, it gives greater explorabil= ity in a huge source. You should read the section "Why Helm is powerful" ab= ove.