From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: A package in a league of its own: Helm Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 15:36:32 +0200 Message-ID: <87zjen5sf3.fsf@wanadoo.es> References: <787f8d86-dede-4627-b4e5-3658a1833455@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1409319439 5776 80.91.229.3 (29 Aug 2014 13:37:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 13:37:19 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 29 15:37:13 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 1XNMMX-0003Ym-Gi for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Aug 2014 15:37:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42058 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XNMMX-000656-3n for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Aug 2014 09:37:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35565) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XNMMH-000648-Ky for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Aug 2014 09:36:59 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XNMMB-0005f7-KU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Aug 2014 09:36:53 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:44104) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XNMMB-0005ex-EI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Aug 2014 09:36:47 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XNMMA-0003Ba-AK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Aug 2014 15:36:46 +0200 Original-Received: from 18.red-83-41-63.dynamicip.rima-tde.net ([83.41.63.18]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 29 Aug 2014 15:36:46 +0200 Original-Received: from ofv by 18.red-83-41-63.dynamicip.rima-tde.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 29 Aug 2014 15:36:46 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 18.red-83-41-63.dynamicip.rima-tde.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:B9F9RKL4HUpDzN9X27UVgAIK4pc= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:99508 Archived-At: solidius4747@gmail.com writes: > I wrote a guide for Helm here: http://tuhdo.github.io/helm-intro.html > > Hope it help with your Helm usage if you are new to Helm. Helm looks impressive. I have a mature completion environment around ido+flx. One of the killer features is to quickly navigate huge lists of completion candidates. For instance, while on a git repo a command allows me to locate a versioned file, typically taking about 2 seconds for a tree containing tens of thousands of files. The command is very simple to implement (9 lines). How difficult is to add a new completion command to helm? Such as providing it with a list of strings and complete on it? Can helm use other completion matching methods, such as flx? I regard flx as more convenient than helm's default matching system.