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Helm is incremental completion and selection narrowing framework for Emacs. It will help steer you in the right direction when you're looking for stuff in Emacs (like buffers, files, etc).

Helm is a fork of anything.el originaly written by Tamas Patrovic and can be considered to be its successor. Helm sets out to clean up the legacy code in anything.el and provide a cleaner, leaner and more modular tool, that's not tied in the trap of backward compatibility.

1. Clone the helm repository to some directory:

```elisp
$ git clone https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm.git /path/to/helm/directory
```

2. Run make from this directory.
3. Add to .emacs.el (or equivalent):

```elisp
(add-to-list 'load-path "/path/to/helm/directory")
(require 'helm-config)
```

Helm is now available on Melpa at https://melpa.milkbox.net/ You will find there instructions to install.

Note to Linux Distributions Maintainers

Only the extensions present in the github emacs-helm organisation are supported.

If you're afraid to play with Emacs's configuration, but want to try out Helm - have to fear. Have a look at Emacs Prelude - it has Helm built-in and properly set-up.

Just type M-x helm-mini and enjoy. You might want to bind that command to a keyboard shortcut. Here's a suggestion:

(global-set-key (kbd "C-c h") 'helm-mini)

You can also start with M-x helm-mode and enjoy helm completion in your favourites Emacs commands (e.g M-x, C-x C-f, etc...). You can enable this by adding in your init file:

(helm-mode 1)

As a startup point you can also look at the helm section in Emacs menu to discover some of the commands provided by helm.

Helm is capable of a lot.

You can find all the gory details on the Helm Wiki.

Check out the project's issue list a list of unresolved issues. By the way - feel free to fix any of them and sent us a pull request. :-)

Here's a list of all the people who have contributed to the development of Helm.

Bug reports and suggestions for improvements are always welcome. GitHub pull requests are even better! :-)

If you have problems, send a bug report via C-c C-x C-b in helm session (best) or M-x helm-send-bug-report outside helm session. We implemented this bug report feature because we want to know your current state. It helps usa solve problems easily. The steps are:

1. Setup mail in Emacs, the easiest way is:

```elisp
(setq user-mail-address "[email protected]")
(setq user-full-name "Your Full Name")
(setq smtpmail-smtp-server "your.smtp.server.jp")
(setq mail-user-agent 'message-user-agent)
(setq message-send-mail-function 'message-smtpmail-send-it)
```

2. Be sure to use the LATEST version of helm.el.
3. Enable debugger. M-x toggle-debug-on-error or (setq debug-on-error t)
4. Use Lisp version instead of compiled one: (load "helm.el")
5. Do it!
6. If you got an error, please do not close Backtrace buffer.
7. Type C-c C-x C-b (helm session, best!) or M-x helm-send-bug-report (outside) and then M-x insert-buffer Backtrace (if you got error)
8. Describe the bug using a precise recipe.
9. Type C-c C-c to send.

Cheers,
The Helm Team