From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Time to consider/try Helm? Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 15:47:54 +0100 Message-ID: <87in1jwkx1.fsf@telefonica.net> 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> <878t2fo5td.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1540911514 4488 195.159.176.226 (30 Oct 2018 14:58:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 14:58:34 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1.50 (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 15:58:30 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 1gHVTR-00013w-NV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Oct 2018 15:58:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53721 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gHVVY-0006NY-93 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Oct 2018 11:00:40 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47420) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gHVJn-0002II-N9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Oct 2018 10:48:36 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gHVJW-0004mQ-1o for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Oct 2018 10:48:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=47266 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gHVJV-0004Yl-PN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Oct 2018 10:48:13 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gHVHB-0003AT-IJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Oct 2018 15:45:49 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:mb1TNNSmzI2j1EAKDMs8h0Rk8Ss= 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:118505 Archived-At: Eric S Fraga writes: > 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... ;-) I tried Ivy and didn't convince me. Possibly because my Ido setup is quite evolved (flx matching is great). Ivy showing the list of candidates as one column didn't help. While using it, I was asking myself "where is the improvement?" and found no obvious answer.