Re: Time to consider/try Helm?

[Boris Buliga]

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 <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> 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
>
>
>

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Cheers,
Boris