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Questions tagged [helm]

Helm is an incremental completion and narrowing framework for Emacs. It is available for installation from MELPA.

Use this tag to ask questions about

  • Helm installation and configuration
  • Changing Helm behavior
  • Integrating Helm completion with other commands
  • Debugging Helm issues
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How should I change my workflow when moving from IDO to Helm

As an Emacs newbie, I found IDO and loved it since it made searching for files so much quicker. After spending some time on this site, I've read more and more about Helm and I'm planning on making the switch. Some of my questions are: What are the…
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How can I get fuzzy code completion

When using ReSharper in Visual Studio symbols can be auto-completed using fuzzy matching instead of prefix matching. For example if I'm looking for a function named DoSomethingAmazing I could write DoSoAm and it would try to expand my query to match…
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How do I make pressing in helm-find-files open the directory?

When I run #'helm-find-files, and move point to a directory, pressing results in opening that directory in dired mode. One has to press C-j to enter that directory in Helm. I'd like to have act as C-j does here, but not necessarily…
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How to widen helm buffer names in `helm-buffers-list`?

One of the things I find annoying in emacs-helm is the size of the column showing buffer names in helm-buffers-list. I have searched the documentation and couldn't find how to customize the width of this column. Is this even possible?
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Is there any way to order helm results by commonly used?

It seems that the order of helm results is never useful... I either have to navigate through the long list or keep typing until I've narrowed the list enough. Is there any way to sort the results in order of usage frequency? Edit: That is, the most…
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How to scroll through all available matching interactive (M-x) commands using Helm rather than just my history?

I'm using Helm to perform completions for my interactive commands, but it only lets me cycle through those commands which I have used in the past (i.e. 4 Candidate(s)). I don't want this behavior, instead, when pressing C-n/C-p it should cycle…
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Helm swoop on all project files (not just current buffers)

So I'm looking to have helm-swoop look at all files in a project, not just the current set of open buffers. This is so I can use swoop to find all occurrences in a project, mark relevant ones, then edit them (in helm swoops edit mode). I feel that…
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Mark and open multiple files with Helm and Projectile

Helm seem to support marking files in helm-find-files. Is it possible to open the marked files, each one inside of its own buffer from within the find file buffer? Update: I noticed that I was using helm-projectile-switch-project rather than the…
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Open helm search result in a new window?

Commands like helm-projectile-grep, helm-swoop, projectile-find-file are extremely useful for jumping around code. However, so far I've not found how I can open a search result in a new window (instead, right now pressing RET with a search result…
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Open file in new window after searching it with helm

As written in A Package in a league of its own: Helm there's a way to search for a file using Helm decide after searching whether open it in same or other window My question is: How?
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Helm: search within buffer feature?

A pretty basic Helm question. What is the Helm window/command/feature that lets us search for text (preferably using regexp) within any type of buffer (i.e., including read-only such as w3m)? In other words, I'm looking for Helm's equivalent of…
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Does icicles offer features that Helm doesn't?

I'm an avid helm user and am reading the description for icicles. It includes things like: cycle through completion candidates that match your current input * which sounds weaker to me than seeing the entire list of matches in helm (since I'm…
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Prevent helm from prompting to create a new buffer

If you visit a directory with helm-find-files and type the name of a file that doesn't exist, before opening it in a new buffer helm will prompt: File does not exist, create buffer? I would like helm to just create the buffer, without the prompt. I…
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A search interface for org mode files

I use org-mode to take notes. Currently I have a root directory, say, "Notes", and there are several subdirectories inside it, for example, "Linux", "Programming", etc. The notes taken using org-mode are stored under those subdirectories. I was…
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helm-ag (or similar) find in javascript files only

I'd like to restrict find/grep to (say) only javascript files (mainly because that's what i do in "another editor"). Javascript files in my legacy Ruby-on-Rails project have one of these file extensions:- .js, .js.erb, .coffee, .js.coffee,…
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