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I use the packages Helm and helm-projectile for navigating in Emacs. I ran into problems, when I use projectile-helm inside Helm, and I'm able to reproduce this with a empty Emacs init file. The configuration to reproduce this:

;; Get MELPA
(add-to-list 'package-archives
             '("melpa-stable" . "http://melpa-stable.milkbox.net/packages/") t)

;; Add Use-package to the list
(setq package-list
    '(use-package))

;; Install use-package
; activate all the packages
(package-initialize)

(use-package projectile
  :ensure t
  :diminish projectile-mode
  :config
  (projectile-global-mode) 

(use-package helm-projectile
  :ensure t
  :config
  (projectile-global-mode) 
  (helm-projectile-on))

(use-package helm
  :ensure t
  :commands helm-for-files
  :diminish helm-mode
  :config
  (helm-mode 1)
  (setq helm-for-files-preferred-list '(helm-source-recentf
                                        helm-source-projectile-files-list
                                        helm-source-projectile-recentf-list))

What will the problem be?

The directory foo contains two files: foo.txt and .git.

The directory bar contains one files: bar.txt.

When you're opening a file in directory foo:

foo/foo.txt

Then call M-x helm-find-files, the Helm window will show up, because it's a project file (because of the .git init file, so it can find files), so the source projectile-files-list will deliver the files.

But when you opening bar.txt in directory bar, then call M-x helm-find-files, it will not show up because it's probably still waiting on input from helm-source-projectile-files-list, in buffers *warnings*, or in buffer errors I can't find anything. I understand where this problem might come, but how could I tell Emacs, to not use helm-source-projectile-files-list when the buffer is currently not in a project (.git)?

ReneFroger
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  • Did you already see https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/6ogkp3/how_to_add_more_source_to_helmfindfiles_or/? That is just a wild guess. I don't use helm. – Tobias Nov 08 '18 at 05:30
  • Hi Tobias, I looked into that Reddit thread you have linked. But I found no solution/related reply to my issue, but thanks for your contribution anyway! :). – ReneFroger Nov 09 '18 at 21:05
  • `helm-for-files` is a different command then `helm-find-files`. Are you sure you are not calling the former when you mean to be calling the the later? – Prgrm.celeritas Nov 09 '18 at 22:22
  • @Prgm.celeritas I'm using `helm-find-files`, and not using `helm-for-files`. You might mean the setting `helm-find-files-preferred-list` based on that Reddit comment? It made no any difference in my case, unfortunately. – ReneFroger Nov 17 '18 at 18:35

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I had this same problem a while ago.

Whenever files or candidate items don't appear right (in this case bar.txt) away I noticed that searching for bar.txt in the helm buffer would make it appear.

Try this.

(setq helm-candidate-number-limit 10000)
Zypps987
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  • It didn't worked in my case. It makes no difference it seems. Have you tried it with the steps to reproduce this problem, without this setting and with this setting? – ReneFroger Nov 17 '18 at 18:27
  • Without providing your entire emacs setting this is impossible to diagnose to a single misconfigured setting. – Zypps987 Nov 23 '18 at 16:03