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From: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Time to consider/try Helm?
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 14:41:18 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878t2fo5td.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CANc-5Uy+xpha07wRVsjxufDxyCAAqx3iy=LUb9mcntB3Mdf9Sg@mail.gmail.com

On Tuesday, 30 Oct 2018 at 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.

if it's any consolation, I've also been using Emacs for 30+ years and I've only managed to get to ido so far... ;-)

Orthogonal to these but very useful, by the way, is smex [1].

eric

Footnotes:
[1]  https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Smex

-- 
Eric S Fraga via Emacs 27.0.50 & org 9.1.13 on Debian buster/sid




  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-10-30 14:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-29 12:43 Time to consider/try Helm? Jonathon McKitrick
2018-10-29 14:48 ` Boris Buliga
2018-10-30  7:11   ` YUE Daian
2018-10-30  8:19     ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-10-30  9:21       ` Skip Montanaro
2018-10-30 10:19         ` YUE Daian
2018-10-30 10:31           ` Boris Buliga
2018-10-30 14:41         ` Eric S Fraga [this message]
2018-10-30 14:47           ` Boris Buliga
2018-10-30 14:47           ` Óscar Fuentes
     [not found]         ` <mailman.3102.1540910509.1284.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-10-30 18:11           ` Ben Bacarisse
2018-10-31 10:38             ` Eric S Fraga
2018-10-30 22:19     ` Rémi Letot
2018-10-31  4:14       ` YUE Daian
2018-10-31 10:34         ` Eric S Fraga
2018-10-31 10:57           ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-10-31 12:17             ` Eric S Fraga
2018-10-31 11:08           ` YUE Daian
2018-10-31 10:59         ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-10-31 11:23           ` YUE Daian
2018-10-31 19:03             ` Rémi Letot
2018-10-31 19:08               ` Boris Buliga
2018-11-01 19:27             ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-11-02  3:55               ` YUE Daian
2018-11-03 14:09               ` Neal Becker
2018-10-30  6:48 ` Vladimir Sedach

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