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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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helm & projectile: how to remove a project from projectile

I have several projects defined, and when I run C-c p p, it will list all of the projects. Now I don't want a project and I have deleted the .projectile file under that project, but it still shows up. How do I delete it?
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Sublime Text 2's "Goto Anything" (or instant search) for Emacs?

I tried out Sublime Text 2 recently, and I found Goto Anything superbly useful for navigating source code (Ctrl-P file@symbol seems to work really well). Is there something similar for Emacs? Preferably something that just works, without a ton of…
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Where to find Emacs Helm documentation

Helm is a great framework for selection and autocompletion. Reading Anything page on Emacs Wiki, I know Helm evolved from Anything. The page advises user to update extensions written for Anything to be used with Helm but provided no instruction on…
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Create a new file with a similar name in Emacs with Helm

I always end up opening an eshell and executing find-file new-file-name, because helm always supplies me with candidates and a million options that don't look like the basic feature that I want: forcing the file to be called what I typed. For…
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Edit buffer while keeping Helm results open

Is it possible to visit a buffer from the result list of Helm while keeping the Helm buffer open? Or is there some other way of achieving the same effect? I often need to do tasks that involve searching some files, and visit each of them, but the…
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How can I change emacs helm-find-file default action on directory to be go inside the directory instead of open in in dired?

I am using emacs prelude. I recently decided to switch to helm from ido. So I enabled helm and helm-everywhere in emacs prelude, Everything works perfectly, except the default behavior of helm-find-file In Ido, I could hit retto go down the selected…
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emacs helm M-x: how to jump to the list of historical command

When I run M-x to open helm, it displays 2 lists, one is the list about the ALL command matching the pattern, another list is the hisotrial. How to quickly jump to the historical one?
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Is there some kind of "package-search" function available for Emacs?

In Emacs, the M-x keybinding lets you search and execute available commands. I'm looking for a similar function/functionality that lets you search and install available packages from the Emacs repositories. The best I can do at present is M-x…
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How to use projectile-find-test-file

I'm using Emacs and projectile and trying to set the path to a test file so that I can use projectile-toggle-between-implementation-and-test. I call M-xprojectile-find-test-file but the Helm buffer is empty. Whatever I put in the pattern field, no…
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emacs helm-projectile, slow startup and projectile file find very slow

I'm on emacs using helm-projectile. I notice that emacs startup is very slow, ~4s. And projectile find fuzzy matching is slow as well, when I type the file name in full it takes about ~3s. I am working on a very large project, ~110K files. Is there…
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In Emacs org-mode, how to refile highlighted text under an org heading?

In Emacs org-mode, is there a way to automatically refile highlighted text under an org heading? i.e. to cut the highlighted text and automatically paste it under the org-heading of my choice? You could call it org-refile-region. Similar to…
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Projectile search only part of the project

When using emacs Projectile and helm-projectile, I am used to search for text inside the whole project. However is there a way to search only part of the project? Something like: search inside a subfolder only search while excluding a subfolder
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How to copy path of a file in emacs helm-mode

I'm using helm-mode in emacs to open files. However, when I try to copy the path of a file (say /home/user1/Documents/file1.txt) through mouse left-click and hold to paste it in terminal, I get a message saying is undefined I guess…
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Helm chooses unreadable highlight colors in solarized-dark

I'm experimenting with helm, after using icicles for a long time. I used the popular solarized-dark colour scheme by default most of the time, and helm seems to be choosing particularly unreadable colors: ...how can I advise helm to select more…
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How do create a new file that matches an existing file in Emacs Prelude?

In Emacs Prelude, I cannot figure out how to create a new file when a file exists that "matches" the name of the file. In the example screen capture, I am trying to create a file called spawn.exs in a directory that already contains a file called…
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