Re: Time to consider/try Helm?

[Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>]

On 2018-10-31, at 05:14, YUE Daian <sheepduke@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2018-10-30 23:19, Rémi Letot <hobbes@poukram.net> wrote:
>> YUE Daian <sheepduke@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> Could you please elaborate a bit on that ?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -- 
>> Rémi
>
> Hi Remi,
>
> Sorry for not being able to type the accent ;-)
>
> I am not really familiar with ivy so please let me talk about helm.
>
> Let's take buffer management as an example.
>
> With ido you have `ido-switch-buffer`, `ido-kill-buffer` etc for
> different purposes.
>
> But with helm, when you use `helm-buffer-list`, it pops up a buffer,
> which displays all opened and recently used buffers.
>
> You can type anything in the mini-buffer to perform fuzzy-search and the
> buffer list will be filtered.
>
> You can mark items in the list and perform actions on them, for example
> kill buffer, query replace, grep etc etc.
> These actions are customizable thus can be added more.
>
> Also packages like helm can be used as a front-end for many other tools,
> such as ag (great enhancement of grep, highly recommended), projectile
> etc etc.

Ivy can do these things, too.

> I think the biggest change helm brings is that it uses buffer instead of
> mini-buffer to display its results.

How is that beneficial?  (I don't claim it isn't - I just don't know
what are the pluses.)

Best,

-- 
Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl