From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk (Phillip Lord) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: A package in a league of its own: Helm Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 15:20:03 +0100 Message-ID: <87mwai9ka4.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> References: <787f8d86-dede-4627-b4e5-3658a1833455@googlegroups.com> <73520ac0-9fc0-42ce-8a15-cc400b6f8308@googlegroups.com> <672a0d66-bc48-4b7a-9279-c7d631a03f79@googlegroups.com> <66ac7656-4c1a-416b-873c-88e2bad3cf83@googlegroups.com> <87ha0qb1mv.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1409667645 31081 80.91.229.3 (2 Sep 2014 14:20:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 14:20:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, "Tu, Do" To: York Zhao Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 02 16:20:38 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XOowj-0002sv-U2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Sep 2014 16:20:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38432 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XOowj-0007wt-Fz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Sep 2014 10:20:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43366) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XOowQ-0007l2-F8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Sep 2014 10:20:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XOowH-0002El-3X for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Sep 2014 10:20:14 -0400 Original-Received: from cheviot22.ncl.ac.uk ([128.240.234.22]:55680) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XOowG-0002Bg-UY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Sep 2014 10:20:05 -0400 Original-Received: from smtpauth-vm.ncl.ac.uk ([10.8.233.129] helo=smtpauth.ncl.ac.uk) by cheviot22.ncl.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1XOowF-0005fM-Dh; Tue, 02 Sep 2014 15:20:03 +0100 Original-Received: from jangai.ncl.ac.uk ([10.66.67.223] helo=localhost) by smtpauth.ncl.ac.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1XOowF-0008Pc-4t; Tue, 02 Sep 2014 15:20:03 +0100 In-Reply-To: (York Zhao's message of "Tue, 2 Sep 2014 10:13:21 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 128.240.234.22 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:99601 Archived-At: York Zhao writes: >> I've been using projectile, but with ido -- this is what is giving you the >> completion you show? > > helm-find-file is actually the only thing I can't get used to (yet) in Helm. > Other than that, Helm is great. Especially if you use projectile. When I started > to use projectile, I gave myself a chance to see how ido goes, and I used > projectile with ido for a while. But I finally decided that ido was not what I > want while using projectile. Therefor, I've improved helm-projectile, and if you > pull the latest projectile you will find that the helm interface has been > improved. In short, in order to use projectile with Helm, you can now type C-c > ph (`helm-projectile'), then you can type something to select your project. Now, > if you press ENTER you will be provided to select the file in your project, with > Helm. However, you can also type C-d to open Dired for your project, M-g to goto > VC or Magit and M-e to open Eshell. These four actions are what I've been using > a lot, but I'm sure we can add much more useful actions. So, give > `helm-projectile' (bound to C-c ph) a go to see how you like it. But you still have to use helm-find-files to get to the project in the first place? I tend to work on a lot of projects (and stuff not in projects) during a single day. Phil