Emacs incremental completion and selection narrowing framework. Helm is an Emacs framework for incremental completions and narrowing selections. It helps to rapidly complete file names, buffer names, or any other Emacs interactions requiring selecting an item from a list of possible choices. Helm is a fork of anything.el, which was originally written by Tamas Patrovic and can be considered to be its successor. Helm cleans the legacy code that is leaner, modular, and unchained from constraints of backward compatibility. Helm is an Emacs framework for incremental completions and narrowing selections. It helps to rapidly complete file names, buffer names, or any other Emacs interactions requiring selecting an item from a list of possible choices. Helm is a fork of anything.el, which was originally written by Tamas Patrovic and can be considered to be its successor. Helm cleans the legacy code that is leaner, modular, and unchained from constraints of backward compatibility.
Features
- You can build your own Helm applications
- Helm provides preconfigured commands to browse and search incrementally in files
- Helm allows displaying different sources in same session
- Helm displays its candidates in a window or a frame, keeping the minibuffer for user input
- Helm provides a full set of actions for each of its sources, each action apply on a single candidate or a set of marked candidates
- You will find many helm extensions providing diverse features sometimes already implemented in Helm