Hi, I have helm-mode activated in my init.el and I also have smart-tab installed, but I am unfamiliar with helm and unsure what the expected behavior should be in the following two situations.
1. I expected that tab completion would work in helm, but when I press tab nothing happens and the minibuffer says: Sole action: action-fn
2. Also about matching on non-consecutive letters. For example, for helm to match the M-x command "org-mobile-push". I expected to be able to type "rgmobpu" but instead I have to type "rg-mobile-pu" to achieve the same.
rizumu <funks...@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi,
> I have helm-mode activated in my init.el and I also have smart-tab > installed, but I am unfamiliar with helm and unsure what the expected > behavior should be in the following two situations.
I don't know what is smart-tab and don't know if it works with helm.
> 1. I expected that tab completion would work in helm, but when I press tab > nothing happens and the minibuffer says:
> Sole action: action-fn
Depend which completion you want; helm handle well elisp completion, for
tab to work use:
first hit on TAB will indent your code, second hit (fast [1]) will
complete.
[1] You can set this delay, see `helm-lisp-completion-or-indent-delay'.
> 2. Also about matching on non-consecutive letters. For example, for helm to > match the M-x command "org-mobile-push". I expected to be able to type > "rgmobpu" but instead I have to type "rg-mobile-pu" to achieve the same.
Type "rg mob pu" (notice the spaces)
Which give me here two candidate:
org-mobile-pull/push
You can type also this:
"rg mob pu !sh"
Which will remove the org-mobile-push candidate.
-- Thierry
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Thanks for the reply. What you've said works great, but I didn't explain myself clearly about the tab completion part. I'd like to know how it works inside of the helm mini-buffer, not a code file, but that is useful to know as well.
If I have helm-mode enabled and type "M-x eval-b <tab>" nothing happens, I just get the "Sole action: action-fn" message in the minibuffer. Since there are no other completions for "eval-b" except for "eval-buffer" I thought it would tab complete and select this command. Instead I have to press enter.
Similarly for "M-x find-file ~/.emacs.d/ini <tab>" I expected it to tab complete and open init.el. And on that note, if there is a match such as two folders "~/file1.el" "~/file2.el" typing "~/fi <tab>" should complete up until to "~/file" and wait for me to type a 1 or 2, press tab again, and then open that file.
Probably I'm missing something simple, but thats how bash completion works, so I'd like to achieve the same behavior inside of helm.
> > Hi, > > I have helm-mode activated in my init.el and I also have smart-tab > > installed, but I am unfamiliar with helm and unsure what the expected > > behavior should be in the following two situations. > I don't know what is smart-tab and don't know if it works with helm.
> > 1. I expected that tab completion would work in helm, but when I press > tab > > nothing happens and the minibuffer says: > > Sole action: action-fn > Depend which completion you want; helm handle well elisp completion, for > tab to work use:
> first hit on TAB will indent your code, second hit (fast [1]) will > complete. > [1] You can set this delay, see `helm-lisp-completion-or-indent-delay'.
> > 2. Also about matching on non-consecutive letters. For example, for helm > to > > match the M-x command "org-mobile-push". I expected to be able to type > > "rgmobpu" but instead I have to type "rg-mobile-pu" to achieve the same. > Type "rg mob pu" (notice the spaces) > Which give me here two candidate: > org-mobile-pull/push > You can type also this: > "rg mob pu !sh" > Which will remove the org-mobile-push candidate.
> -- > Thierry > Get my Gnupg key: > gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 59F29997
> Thanks for the reply. What you've said works great, but I didn't explain > myself clearly about the tab completion part. I'd like to know how it works > inside of the helm mini-buffer, not a code file, but that is useful to know > as well.
> If I have helm-mode enabled and type "M-x eval-b <tab>" nothing happens, I > just get the "Sole action: action-fn" message in the minibuffer. Since > there are no other completions for "eval-b" except for "eval-buffer" I > thought it would tab complete and select this command. Instead I have to > press enter.
> Similarly for "M-x find-file ~/.emacs.d/ini <tab>" I expected it to tab > complete and open init.el. And on that note, if there is a match such as > two folders "~/file1.el" "~/file2.el" typing "~/fi <tab>" should complete > up until to "~/file" and wait for me to type a 1 or 2, press tab again, and > then open that file.
> Probably I'm missing something simple, but thats how bash completion works, > so I'd like to achieve the same behavior inside of helm.
In helm <TAB> open the action buffer if the source have more than one
action.
helm-M-x have only one action, if you use helm-mode the regular M-x
command will have only one action also.
A typical use of helm is typing something in minibuffer to narrow down
the completion buffer and moving in this buffer with arrow keys or C-n/p
to select the candidate you need.
So to reply to your question, there is no TAB completion in helm because
the helm-buffer is the completion result itself.
-- Thierry
Get my Gnupg key:
gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 59F29997
On Thursday, July 12, 2012 7:06:12 PM UTC+2, rizumu wrote:
> Hi, > I have helm-mode activated in my init.el and I also have smart-tab > installed, but I am unfamiliar with helm and unsure what the expected > behavior should be in the following two situations.
> 1. I expected that tab completion would work in helm, but when I press tab > nothing happens and the minibuffer says: > Sole action: action-fn
> 2. Also about matching on non-consecutive letters. For example, for helm > to match the M-x command "org-mobile-push". I expected to be able to type > "rgmobpu" but instead I have to type "rg-mobile-pu" to achieve the same.
