From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Marcin Borkowski Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Time to consider/try Helm? Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 09:19:47 +0100 Message-ID: <877ehzx2vw.fsf@mbork.pl> References: <69734f56-cea7-465d-83a8-35c7b2f08a2a@googlegroups.com> <87a7mvlxia.fsf@work.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1540887603 25788 195.159.176.226 (30 Oct 2018 08:20:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 08:20:03 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: mu4e 1.1.0; emacs 27.0.50 Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: YUE Daian Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 30 09:19:59 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gHPFm-0006aG-Ph for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Oct 2018 09:19:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51536 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gHPHt-0008FN-9z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Oct 2018 04:22:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:32972) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gHPHS-0008F4-5C for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Oct 2018 04:21:42 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gHPHO-0006JB-Ry for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Oct 2018 04:21:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([195.110.48.8]:54402) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gHPHJ-000672-9k for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Oct 2018 04:21:35 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1E24E6561; Tue, 30 Oct 2018 09:21:25 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mail.mojserwer.eu Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.mojserwer.eu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id f_vv_wllO89o; Tue, 30 Oct 2018 09:21:22 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (apn-46-76-223-221.dynamic.gprs.plus.pl [46.76.223.221]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0EBE2E6515; Tue, 30 Oct 2018 09:21:22 +0100 (CET) In-reply-to: <87a7mvlxia.fsf@work.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.110.48.8 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:118497 Archived-At: On 2018-10-30, at 08:11, YUE Daian wrote: > Hi Boris, > > For me it was from vanilla to ido to helm. Never looked back. > > There are many debates of choosing helm or ivy. Their user experience > might be quite different. But both of them are far better than ido IMHO. Agreed (on the Ivy part, I've never tried helm). My journey was vanilla -> Ido -> Icicles -> Ivy. Icicles is hard/impossible to beat featurewise, but I found out that I don't really need its power and that I prefer the simplicity of Ivy. Best, -- Marcin Borkowski http://mbork.pl