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Emacs incremental completion and selection narrowing framework

30 mentions on Hacker News by 27 people: 2 stories, 28 comments · first 2012-08-10 · latest 2025-07-09

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  1. For a moment I thought it was about the Emacs package. https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm
  2. …But it does allow you to add a shortcut to a command you find on the fly, which is great. [0] https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm
  3. …https://magit.vc [2] https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TrampMode [3] https://ergoemacs.github.io/ [4] https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm
    comment by mapolone · 2021-03-25 · in Emacs 27.2
  4. …to managing window splits [6], moving windows [3][4], saving their configuration [5], etc. [1]: https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm [2]: https://github.com/abo-abo/swiper [3]: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/WindMove [4]:…
    comment by skulk · 2020-11-20 · in EXWM (Emacs X Window Manager)
  5. What? More like commits every other day for several years. https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm/commits/master?after=19d2...
    comment by marviio · 2020-09-12 · in Emacs-Helm development is now stalled
  6. …issue announcing that the development had been stalled, he removed a chunk of text from the README: https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm/commit/9a5258db9c7bb12698... Here's how it looked before that change:…
    comment by Cyphase · 2020-09-12 · in Emacs-Helm development is now stalled
  7. …to complete for most people using it. I know I use helm and haven't thought twice about it. [0]: https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm/issues/2388
    comment by hardwaresofton · 2020-09-12 · in Emacs-Helm development is now stalled
  8. …enormous amount of time by giving me discovery of feature and for the most part approaching DWIM. https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm
    comment by zitterbewegung · 2020-01-16 · in Autocomplete as an Interface (2015)
  9. Sounds amazing. Would https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm/blob/master/README.md be the correct starting point for learning more about Helm?
    comment by luckman212 · 2019-07-05 · in How FZF and ripgrep improved my workflow
  10. …with integrations that span the package ecosystem. [1]: https://github.com/abo-abo/swiper [2]: https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm
  11. If you like dired-mode then checkout helm https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm/wiki#helm-workflow-for-fi...
    comment by dustfinger · 2018-10-24 · in A terminal file manager written in bash
  12. …feature is the command palette. You can use `helm-M-x` from Helm[1] to do the same in Emacs. [1]: https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm
    comment by juki · 2018-08-28 · in Goodbye VSCode, Hello Emacs Again
  13. …Screenshot: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SunriseCommanderScreenshotOn... [2] Screenshot: https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm/blob/master/images/helm-b...
  14. …that it's quite popular, see pic) and was a bit confused (yet intrigued!). http://imgur.com/VlXfKoK https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm edit: search from incognito window (without my profile's emacs bias): http://imgur.com/QXkBlLq
  15. Emacs helm mode: https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm . In Emacs, usually a language support library (like ensime, ycmd or ggtags) just give you a list of things user can choose from. This list is often passed to a function like…
    comment by kozikow · 2016-06-14 · in The simple things I want in a text editor
  16. …it) and can be used with arbitrary non-file related sources (e.g. the text in the current buffer). https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm
  17. I think helm is the new thing that replaces ido: https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm Ace Jump is pretty incredible. All editors and IDE's should be required to implement it. Here's a video demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZkpmegySnc…
    comment by melling · 2015-11-29 · in A CEO's Guide to Emacs
  18. …extensible now. Packages like Helm and Company mode have made emacs more competitive, for example. https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm/wiki http://company-mode.github.io
  19. …single keypress) or virtually any other keystroke. [1] - http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Helm [2] - https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm [3] - http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/BufferSelection [4] - http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id…
    comment by pmoriarty · 2014-11-08 · in Big things to expect from Emacs 25
  20. You could mention in which ways you tried it, because helm ( https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm ) does all the things you mention as far as i know.
    comment by phaer · 2014-07-25 · in Emacs and Vim
  21. …will show you command binding when you execute it: http://klibert.pl/suggest-key-binding.png Helm ( https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm ) is another way of doing this, although I don't use it (yet - I'm going to check it out sooner or…
    comment by klibertp · 2014-07-24 · in Master Emacs in one year
  22. …http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MiniMap http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Evil https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm (go to anything)
  23. …narrowing. Makes it a lot easier to find those commands which you sort-of-remember-the-name-of: https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm * Sunrise Commander: MC-ish file explorer, based on Emacs's Dired: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Sunrise_Com…
  24. It looks like a clone of Helm (previously called Anything) for Emacs: https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm
  25. Try helm: https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm and https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm-ls-git
    comment by osener · 2013-04-09 · in Setting up Sublime Text 2
  26. …> 1. Ctrl+P - GotoAnything: helm is what you would use on Emacs: https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm it's awesome
    comment by binderbizingdos · 2013-02-03 · in How SublimeText Bodybags vim+Terminator
  27. …overlooked? Because that is one of the major advantages CtrlP or Command-T have - and trying to use https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm with https://github.com/bbatsov/projectile turned out to be by far too slow.
    comment by naglfar · 2012-09-03 · in Plugins you should put in your vimrc
  28. …[1] https://github.com/magnars/mark-multiple.el Video: http://emacsrocks.com/e08.html [2] https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm [3] http://www.emacswiki.org/MiniMap [4] https://github.com/magnars/expand-region.el Video:…
    comment by osener · 2012-08-10 · in My next text editor