Re: Time to consider/try Helm?

[Eric S Fraga]

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

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Eric S Fraga via Emacs 27.0.50 & org 9.1.13 on Debian buster/sid