From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: YUE Daian Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Time to consider/try Helm? 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X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:4864:20::62a X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:118500 Archived-At: On 2018-10-30 04:21, Skip Montanaro wrote: >> >> My journey was vanilla -> Ido -> Icicles -> Ivy. >> > > Completely naive question, but what do these packages provide? I've been > using Emacs for 30+ years and I've never heard of any of them. I guess I > need to get out more. > > Skip Montanaro These packages are "completion frameworks". For example with helm, when you hit `M-x` and type something, it pops up a buffer and list all possible matched commands, from which you may select or do more actions. The same process applies to other operations, including but not limited to `C-x C-f`, `C-h v` etc etc. Some helm extensions provides more interfaces for interacting with `ag`, `locate` etc etc. In a word, they change the way Emacs provides completion selections. IMHO they are great packages that highly improve efficiency when you need to search/query/complete anything inside Emacs. Danny