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Emacs incremental completion and selection narrowing framework.

Emacs incremental completion and selection narrowing framework. https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm

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Emacs Helm: what actions can I do in a helm buffer?

I have 2 questions: In a helm buffer like helm mini or helm ag, there are usually too much candidates. In evil mode I can use C-d or C-u to scroll down or up. Can I do such things in helm buffer? Sometimes when I enter a file path/name, there is…
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What is a good in-emacs process for finding emacs function names and keystrokes

I am learning emacs and I think developing facility with emacs's built in help features would really smooth out the learning curve for learning keystrokes. What is an efficient process, using emacs's built-in help functions, to find the name of a…
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Emacs helm completion: how to turn off persistent-help_line?

I'd like to use helm as a drop-in replacement for display-completion-list. The only issue is that it displays this line on top, which I don't want: C-z: I don't want this line here (keeping session). Here's the code to illustrate: (helm :sources…
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How to restore anything-like behavior for TAB autocomplete in helm?

A related question was asked here. But the answer is to get used to the new way autocomplete works in helm. I cannot get used to it, here's why. Say, I want to open a file /home/user/work/f.txt. I do C-x C-f, it takes me to current dir, say…
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Emacs. Helm package. How find files in folder (not a git folder) and all subfolders?

Windows 10 (64 bit), Emacs 25.1, Helm package. To find file (e.g. myfile.txt) in any folder (not git, not project file) I use command helm-find-file. It's work. OK. But now I need to find myfile.txt in current folder AND all subfolders. How I can do…
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Cygwin Emacs, Windows Everything and ^M

Within a Cygwin Emacs, how is it possible to use Helm (and the fantastic es command-line tool from Everything) to locate files on Windows? I've the thing running easily, except that there are ^M after every file name from the es output. Adding ("es"…
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How do I find org-mode files with completion in Emacs?

I have a growing set of org files stored in org-directory. How can I navigate between them, preferably with interactive filtering and completion? I thought there was a way to get org-mode to produce a list of known org files for quick navigation,…
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Emacs helm: Adding new sources to helm-mini

Helm has builtin helm-mini command which includes buffers and recentf in its sources. (setq helm-source-buffers-list (helm-make-source "Buffers" 'helm-source-buffers))) (helm :sources helm-mini-default-sources :buffer "*helm mini*" …
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Emacs and Helm - How to not show 'buffer-history' when i do 'kill-buffer'

I use helm, and every time I do C-x k (kill-buffer) it shows my "kill-buffer History" at the top. Is there a way to just show just the "kill-buffer" section? I don't use "kill-buffer History" at all. Also, Emacs froze a couple of times when I tried…
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How to discover which faces are used in helm buffers?

I wish to change the appearance of something in a *helm ag* buffer. None of my usual tricks for discovering which face is being used at some point (my favourite being M-x customize-face with the point in the region of interest) work, as there is no…
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Emacs: show helm-buffers-list in a specific window

I normally split my Emacs into two windows. One of them(A) is for text file, the other(B) is for everything else, like shell, scratch. When I call (helm-buffers-list), which invokes the buffer named helm buffers, I want to show it in window B…
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how to prevent helm-swoop from returning symbol at point?

I would like to invoke M-x helm-swoop such that it does NOT return the symbol at point. I find that it always picks up undesired symbols, e.g. when I invoke M-x helm-swoop in org-mode, I get Swoop: \*, and I then have to delete the \* before I can…
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in Emacs, how to search filenames in fixed set of directories?

In Emacs, is there a mode or function that will allow me to search for a string within the filenames (but not within the files) in a fixed set of non-contiguous directories that I have specified in advance? I believe projectile-mode allows me to…
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helm-mode and minibuffer-complete-word

I recently began to use helm-mode in Emacs. While I like the listing of possible file names matching whatever I typed in find-file or write-file, I really like to be able to use SPC key for the minibuffer-complete-word function. Many times files…
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Emacs equivalent of Xcode's "Open Quickly"

I'm trying to get a Cocoa development environment working in Emacs, and I'm 80% of the way there. The one feature I miss is Xcode's "Open Quickly", which basically performs a fuzzy match of the string you type against the filenames referenced in…
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