Re: A package in a league of its own: Helm

[Tu, Do]

@Ernesto I'm glad you find it helpful. I hope you enjoy Helm :)

@Phil

You should follow the configuration in my guide and swap TAB and C-z. Then, you 
can press TAB for entering directory. C-l is used to go back to parent 
directory, it requires two key pressed but it is closer to the home row. I 
don't think it's much slower. I find it actually faster. If you want to search 
for any file in your project, you have to use Projectile: 
https://github.com/bbatsov/projectile

If you don't use Projectile, Ido won't be able to any file in your directory 
either.

Vào 23:01:22 UTC+7 Thứ hai, ngày 01 tháng chín năm 2014, Phil Lord đã viết:
> First, thanks for the tutorial. I've tried helm (and anything) several
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> times, but never got on with it as I have found the experience too
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> confusing. I've always reverted to ido. I like the idea of helm because
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> it is more pervasive than ido and can do several things at once. I
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> dislike the practice of helm because too many things happen at once (and
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> the wiki is incomprehensible).
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> The thing that I am stuck on at the moment, is file navigation. With
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> ido.el, I use [tab] or [del] to move up or down directories (and carry
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> on selecting). With helm I have to use C-l C-j which I find much slower
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> because of the double keypress and because C-k is in the middle.
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> I don't get the behaviour you are talking about with helm. I get a
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> single directory at once, and I have to navigate through it to get to
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> the files I want.
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> Clearly I doing something wrong!
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> Phil
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> <solidius4747@gmail.com> writes:
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> > Consider this path: arch/x86/boot/main.c
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> > Can you type the file name first: "main.c", then add "x86" to get the 
> > correct
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> > file above? I'm pretty sure ido+flx can't do that, but maybe I'm missing
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> > something.
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> > With Helm, you can simply specify "mai x86" and it narrows to 3 candidates
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> > with the above path at the top. The file is in Linux kernel source.
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> > Maybe you misunderstood my statement about precise remembering project
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> > structure. What I meant was you have to remember the correct path ordering,
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> > and that requires you to be familiar with the directory structure. Whlie in
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> > Helm, I'm completely new to a directory and simply know nothing about
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> > directory structure. With Helm, I can start pop up questions like "is there 
> > a
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> > main.c that is relate to x86 arch?" and so on.
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