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Questions tagged [helm]

Helm is an incremental completion and narrowing framework for Emacs. It is available for installation from MELPA.

Use this tag to ask questions about

  • Helm installation and configuration
  • Changing Helm behavior
  • Integrating Helm completion with other commands
  • Debugging Helm issues
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How to widen helm buffer names in `helm-buffers-list`?

One of the things I find annoying in emacs-helm is the size of the column showing buffer names in helm-buffers-list. I have searched the documentation and couldn't find how to customize the width of this column. Is this even possible?
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Prevent helm from prompting to create a new buffer

If you visit a directory with helm-find-files and type the name of a file that doesn't exist, before opening it in a new buffer helm will prompt: File does not exist, create buffer? I would like helm to just create the buffer, without the prompt. I…
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Quicker way in Find-file with helm?

In emacs with helm, I can C-x C-f find file. After type part of the folder name, helm find the right folder. At this point, I can hit Enter to enter Dired mode. and C-s to search a second level folder... or hit tab to complete the folder name, and…
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How to separate histories for different Helm prompts

When operating as separate Doctor Fates, Inza wears the helmet and Kent's original costume while... – Google on helm separate history When I press M-p in the Helm prompt for helm-git-grep I get a file path I entered previously in…
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How to truncate buffer information in helm list

When I have a lot of buffers open and I use helm-mini to look through them, I notice that deeply-nested or tramp buffers take up too much horizontal space, causing them to wrap around, like this: How can I get helm to truncate these lines so they…
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Helm won't let me select available emacs commands

I have emacs set up so that when I type M-x the helm completion buffer pops up. My problem is that helm wont let me select M-x align if I have previously called M-x align-current, because it is only letting me select the completion from the Command…
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disable helm mode for find files

IDO had this disable the special mode and fall back to vanilla find-files. It was useful to be able to use environment variables and their expansion in path names for example. Is there something similar for helm-find-files (a key to hit during…
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Prefer matches that have multiple hits?

It seems that helm prefers shorter paths when ordering the current set of matches. Is there a way to keep this general behavior but also take the number of matches into account? In the screenshot I am searching for generator block and would prefer…
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How to make Helm always add ^ to the input pattern

Is there a way in Helm to first match substrings from the beginning and only after that in the middle of candidates? For instance, I have the following directory structure: ~/ .emacs.d/ .gem/ .microemulator/ And I want to open a file in…
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Open Helm buffer vertically permanently

Helm opens buffer using a vertical split by default. I want the Helm buffer to open using a horizontal split by default. I can use C-t (helm-toggle-resplit-and-swap-windows) to manually toggle the position, but how can I make this change…
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Helm swoop: How to invert match

How can I invert a helm-swoop match, i.e. how can I show all lines not matching the pattern?
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How to find files by content across lines with helm

Within helm I'd like to find all of the files that have the content 'foo' and 'bar', even if 'foo' and 'bar' are on different lines.
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How to jump from "Emacs Command History" to "Emacs Commands" in helm

I'm using Prelude. When I press M-x, I get helm-M-x. Recently I've used query-replace-regexp. Now when I type "replace-regexp", it automatically reaches for element in my history. There is separate section for commands below, where my beloved…
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How to fix problem with fuzzy matching in helm-recentf

Something changed recently with Helm and now the matching order of helm-recentf has become less useful. For instance, in the latest version of Helm (just downloaded from Melpa) if the last visited file was ~/.emacs.d/init.el, and in helm-recentf I…
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How do I make helm swoop not default the search to the word at point?

When I trigger helm-swoop, it autofills the search with the word at point. For my most common use case, this isn't what I want. How do I disable it, so there's nothing in the search.
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