From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Boris Buliga Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Time to consider/try Helm? 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X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:4864:20::234 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.21 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:118504 Archived-At: Eric, Thank you for reminding me about smex! I've used it for some time and I remember being happy with it. I think I've stopped using it once I've installed helm. On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 at 16:42, Eric S Fraga wrote: > 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 > > > -- Cheers, Boris