From: Boris Buliga <boris@d12frosted.io>
To: sheepduke@gmail.com
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Time to consider/try Helm?
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 12:31:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAD5F_-Bxm0i5+JQhb3GG0zURvnhQ+Dq0P13ECpy8unCZGnjA4Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877ehzlos4.fsf@work.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me>
In the nutshell, ivy and helm are both completion frameworks. What I like
about
them is the ability to create custom actions for completion target. Which
means
that when you do `C-x C-f` you can use `return` to visit a file, some other
key
binding to rename a file, to visit in a split buffer etc.
Since they both provide great completion and allow to define custom
actions, I
use them to create programs with ivy/helm as UI. In a lot of cases the most
important task of UI is to narrow down to the actions/targets.
In my sense, ivy is more compact and less intrusive than helm. But I highly
advice to try them both to make a decision.
On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 at 12:20, YUE Daian <sheepduke@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2018-10-30 04:21, Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com> 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.
> >
> > Skip Montanaro
>
> These packages are "completion frameworks".
>
> For example with helm, when you hit `M-x` and type something, it pops up
> a buffer and list all possible matched commands, from which you may
> select or do more actions.
>
> The same process applies to other operations, including but not limited
> to `C-x C-f`, `C-h v` etc etc.
>
> Some helm extensions provides more interfaces for interacting with `ag`,
> `locate` etc etc.
>
> In a word, they change the way Emacs provides completion selections.
>
> IMHO they are great packages that highly improve efficiency when you
> need to search/query/complete anything inside Emacs.
>
> Danny
>
>
--
Cheers,
Boris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-30 10:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-29 12:43 Time to consider/try Helm? Jonathon McKitrick
2018-10-29 14:48 ` Boris Buliga
2018-10-30 7:11 ` YUE Daian
2018-10-30 8:19 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-10-30 9:21 ` Skip Montanaro
2018-10-30 10:19 ` YUE Daian
2018-10-30 10:31 ` Boris Buliga [this message]
2018-10-30 14:41 ` Eric S Fraga
2018-10-30 14:47 ` Boris Buliga
2018-10-30 14:47 ` Óscar Fuentes
[not found] ` <mailman.3102.1540910509.1284.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-10-30 18:11 ` Ben Bacarisse
2018-10-31 10:38 ` Eric S Fraga
2018-10-30 22:19 ` Rémi Letot
2018-10-31 4:14 ` YUE Daian
2018-10-31 10:34 ` Eric S Fraga
2018-10-31 10:57 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-10-31 12:17 ` Eric S Fraga
2018-10-31 11:08 ` YUE Daian
2018-10-31 10:59 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-10-31 11:23 ` YUE Daian
2018-10-31 19:03 ` Rémi Letot
2018-10-31 19:08 ` Boris Buliga
2018-11-01 19:27 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-11-02 3:55 ` YUE Daian
2018-11-03 14:09 ` Neal Becker
2018-10-30 6:48 ` Vladimir Sedach
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