A Package in a league of its own: Helm
From the webpage:
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Helmis incremental completion and selection narrowing framework for Emacs. It will help steer you in the right direction when you’re looking for stuff in Emacs (like buffers, files, etc).Helm is a fork of
anything.eloriginally written by Tamas Patrovic and can be considered to be its successor.Helmsets out to clean up the legacy code inanything.eland provide a cleaner, leaner and more modular tool, that’s not tied in the trap of backward compatibility.…
I saw the following tweet from Norman Walsh today:
Been hacking #Emacs again the past few days. Serious fun. Also: finally became a helm convert. Seriously productive.
I know better.
I should look away, quickly when I see “Emacs” and “Norman Walsh” in a tweet together.
But, just like every other time, I follow the reference, this time to Helm (see above).
I will become more productive, from using Helm or learning more about Emacs in the process. It’s a win either way.
The downside, not too serious a downside, is that I will lose N hours this week as I pursue this lead.
It’s one of the risks of following someone like Norman Walsh on Twitter. But an acceptable one.
Enjoy!