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_ofdw on Jan 23, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: My Emacs Productivity Tricks/Hacks

You don't need Helm for that: smart M-x aka "smex" accomplished that for me and let me stay with ido, as I find Helm too intrusive.

downut on Jan 24, 2020 [–]

Oh I really really loved smex. That's probably why it took me so long to get helm. helm doesn't improve on smex for this use case, I think. At least the stupid simple way I'm only going to use helm. But helm improves on other things spectacularly.

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