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The documentation is a work in progress :-) Install Helm, run helm-mini and you'll understand what it's all about - effective means of navigating to files, buffers, symbols, whatever there is a helm source definition for. If there is a source definition for it, you can use Helm to navigate it. Helm provides the infrastructure, the helm sources provide the data.

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And in what way Helm is different from Anything ? I Ask that, because I read Helm is the successor of Anyhting here : http://wikemacs.org/wiki/Anything

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It has a modular and cleaner codebase. For more details - http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.anything/469

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I am not a helm user (yet). after reading here and there, My impressions are you can select/complete things from more than one source. It comes with a framework by which you can easily define a new source of different kind. where as in Ido you only get fuzzy matching from a dumb list. In helm the list may not be just a list of strings, they can be list of actions (I guess).

I may well be wrong.

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Please continue this conversation on emacs-helm mailing list, thanks.

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