Helm
Helm is an incremental completion and selection narrowing framework for Emacs. It can be seen as a set of tools with an interactive interface that will help steer you in the right direction when you're looking for stuff in Emacs (like buffers, files, etc).
| Description | incremental completion and selection narrowing framework |
|---|---|
| Author | Thierry Volpiatto |
| Maintainer | Thierry Volpiatto |
| Source | https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm |
Helm is a fork of anything.el originally written by Tamas Patrovics and can be considered to be its successor. Helm sets out to clean up the legacy code in anything.el and provide a cleaner, leaner and more modular tool that's not tied in the trap of backward compatibility.
Basic setup
Most Starter_Kits like Prelude come bundled with helm.
Install with MELPA
Helm is packaged in MELPA, so: M-x package-install RET helm RET
and you're ready to try every helm command you like. You don't know where to start ? Run helm-swoop or helm-buffers-list now !
Manual install
(add-to-list 'load-path "/path/to/helm/directory")
(require 'helm-config)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c h") 'helm-mini)
Helpful keybindings
- [C-n]
- Move to next helm suggestion.
- [C-p]
- Move to previous helm suggestion.