From: phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk (Phillip Lord)
To: "Tu\, Do" <solidius4747@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: A package in a league of its own: Helm
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 14:27:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d2beb19h.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53756104-40ab-4c80-8112-13f305208be5@googlegroups.com> (Do Tu's message of "Tue, 2 Sep 2014 01:21:38 -0700")
"Tu, Do" <solidius4747@gmail.com> writes:
>> Ido comes with Emacs, which is a big plus. Flx can be installed from
>>
>> marmalade repo.
>
> Stock Ido is a bit better than stock find-file but not that much. At least
> with stock find-file, you can open a directory or a file. With Ido, you have
> to switch. You also have to improve Ido with packages.
No, it's really a lot better. You can open a dir or file with ido
(agreed, opening a dir is not an obvious keypress). You can tab down
large directories structures very quickly. ido remebers where you have
been so offers good completions often. You can go up whole directories,
short-cut to "~" and "/". And given a file name you can auto-search.
The only problem with ido is that I miss it when I am not using Emacs
(and for somethings when I am using Emacs). I am interested in helm in
case it is better than ido, but ido is very good.
Phil
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Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-29 4:18 A package in a league of its own: Helm solidius4747
2014-08-29 5:49 ` Guide for package use?(was A package in a league of its own: Helm) Rusi
2014-08-29 6:17 ` solidius4747
2014-08-29 13:36 ` A package in a league of its own: Helm Óscar Fuentes
[not found] ` <mailman.7830.1409319420.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-08-29 14:03 ` solidius4747
2014-08-29 15:06 ` solidius4747
2014-08-29 16:48 ` Óscar Fuentes
[not found] ` <mailman.7852.1409330926.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-08-29 17:08 ` solidius4747
2014-08-29 18:03 ` Óscar Fuentes
[not found] ` <mailman.7861.1409335444.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-08-30 1:49 ` solidius4747
2014-08-30 3:33 ` Óscar Fuentes
[not found] ` <mailman.7892.1409369651.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-08-30 3:55 ` solidius4747
2014-09-01 16:01 ` Phillip Lord
2014-09-01 16:49 ` York Zhao
2014-09-02 13:06 ` Phillip Lord
[not found] ` <mailman.8044.1409590146.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-09-01 16:59 ` Tu, Do
2014-09-01 17:25 ` Nikolai Weibull
2014-09-01 17:28 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-09-01 17:40 ` York Zhao
2014-09-01 20:37 ` Michael Heerdegen
2014-09-02 0:27 ` York Zhao
2014-09-02 1:40 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2014-09-02 1:56 ` York Zhao
2014-09-02 23:15 ` Tak Kunihiro
[not found] ` <mailman.8046.1409592357.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-09-02 8:21 ` Tu, Do
2014-09-02 13:27 ` Phillip Lord [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.8039.1409587302.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-09-01 16:43 ` Tu, Do
2014-09-02 13:19 ` Phillip Lord
2014-09-02 14:13 ` York Zhao
2014-09-02 14:20 ` Phillip Lord
2014-09-02 17:03 ` York Zhao
2014-09-03 9:58 ` Phillip Lord
[not found] ` <mailman.8183.1409738348.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-09-03 10:19 ` Tu, Do
[not found] ` <mailman.8134.1409677438.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-09-02 17:11 ` Tu, Do
2014-09-02 17:32 ` York Zhao
2014-09-02 18:15 ` Tu
2014-09-03 0:35 ` York Zhao
[not found] ` <mailman.8166.1409704538.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-09-03 3:50 ` Tu, Do
[not found] ` <mailman.8106.1409664004.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-09-02 14:32 ` Tu, Do
2014-09-03 10:43 ` Phillip Lord
2014-08-31 9:09 ` Ernesto Durante
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