From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eric S Fraga Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Time to consider/try Helm? Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 14:41:18 +0000 Organization: On the Interweb somewhere Message-ID: <878t2fo5td.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> References: <69734f56-cea7-465d-83a8-35c7b2f08a2a@googlegroups.com> <87a7mvlxia.fsf@work.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> <877ehzx2vw.fsf@mbork.pl> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1540910409 19493 195.159.176.226 (30 Oct 2018 14:40:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 14:40:09 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 30 15:40:05 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 1gHVBc-0004xR-Sa for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Oct 2018 15:40:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53634 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gHVDi-0005XO-Q4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Oct 2018 10:42:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45367) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gHVDH-0005XH-Eo for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Oct 2018 10:41:48 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gHVDB-00060C-PA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Oct 2018 10:41:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=36779 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gHVD9-0005ox-M4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Oct 2018 10:41:39 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gHVAo-0003xF-9F for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Oct 2018 15:39:14 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org X-Url: http://twitter.com/ericsfraga/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:sLT2AT5vMZs8vmEItBKjb6fLgE4= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:118503 Archived-At: 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