wordle VS helpful

Compare wordle vs helpful and see what are their differences.

helpful

A better Emacs *help* buffer (by Wilfred)
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wordle helpful
1 34
120 1,063
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0.0 5.9
6 months ago 3 months ago
Rust Emacs Lisp
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wordle

Posts with mentions or reviews of wordle. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-29.
  • Difftastic: A diff that understands syntax
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Mar 2022
    Cargo is Rust's build tool/package manager and can be installed easily using rustup. But I would probably suggest the difftastic maintainers add some prebuilt binaries to the releases

    (I have an example workflow here if anyone from there is interested https://github.com/conradludgate/wordle/blob/main/.github/wo...)

helpful

Posts with mentions or reviews of helpful. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-16.
  • How to "touch file" in dired mode?
    1 project | /r/emacs | 7 Jul 2023
    If you want to programmatically create files, write to them, etc, then read the fine manual, it comes with your Emacs, has index, search and web-like navigation. It is well worth your time investing in looking up the manual, both for Emacs and for Elisp. You access the manual via C-h i. Another good thing to learn how to use is Emacs built-in help. As a minimal basic, C-h f will display information about functions, and C-h v will display the documentation for variables. You can also see where things are declared, open the source code, etc. A good alternative to built-in help is Helpful, which I suggest installing and start using too.
  • Is doom emacs still actively maintained?
    4 projects | /r/emacs | 16 Jun 2023
    It tweaks Emacs GC. You can run M-x describe-variable while your cursor is at gc-cons-threshold to learn about it. If you opted-in for using "Vim bindings" (Evil mode), you can press K while in normal mode. Note that K doesn't run the describe- command in Doom, but it runs helpful-command from (https://github.com/Wilfred/helpful), which provides more context that describe- commands usually do.
  • Quickly learning some LISP basics for using emacs?
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 27 Apr 2023
    The packages helpful and elisp-demos are super useful because they enhance Emacs' built-in documentation.
  • Is the official GNU Emacs up to date?
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 27 Apr 2023
    You can try to actually use helpful for a while. There was also a package with examples, I don't remember the name, perhaps someone else knows which I mean, that shows usage of a function where available. I remember using it and found it very useful for a while when I was learning elisp more actively. I still use helpful sometimes.
  • Helpful: Better Emacs Help
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Apr 2023
  • Best emacs configs for Javascript and/or users who don't like to memorize keybindings?
    5 projects | /r/emacs | 24 Apr 2023
    Once you got the hang of keybindings, which-key is a helpful extension (aka package) to Emacs. At this stage, there are other helpful packages and keybindings.
  • Doom -> vanilla emacs 29
    8 projects | /r/emacs | 14 Apr 2023
    helpful for better help buffers
  • Emacs terminology
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 17 Mar 2023
    Since you seem interested, have a look at elisp-demos , too. It works in tandem with helpful.
  • Good short documentation for CL functions (etc.) available?
    5 projects | /r/Common_Lisp | 16 Mar 2023
    Elisp Docs are fantastic they have documented everything while with CL most documentation is missing or only on the Web. With Emacs, one need to learn about C-h f (describe-function), C-h k (describe-key), helpful.el and elisp-demos and a new world opens. Terminology is always different, simple example: Microsoft terminology sounds like bullshit, to a Unix person.
  • What's the Best Way to Learn Emacs?
    1 project | /r/emacs | 8 Mar 2023
    Your primary source of knowledge will be the manual and the built-in discoverability (describe-* functions, or helpful) and of course reading the code. I'm not a manual person myself, but Emacs is one of the examples where it is truly excellent and has answers for almost everything.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing wordle and helpful you can also consider the following projects:

deadgrep - fast, friendly searching with ripgrep and Emacs

emacs-which-key - Emacs package that displays available keybindings in popup

hdiff - Hash-based Diffing for AST's

elisp-demos - Demonstrate Emacs Lisp APIs

json-diff - Structural diff for JSON files

marginalia - :scroll: marginalia.el - Marginalia in the minibuffer

tree-sitter - An incremental parsing system for programming tools

GNU Emacs - Mirror of GNU Emacs

difftastic - a structural diff that understands syntax 🟥🟩

solarized-emacs - The Solarized colour theme, ported to Emacs.

ydiff - View colored, incremental diff in workspace or from stdin with side by side and auto pager support

use-package - A use-package declaration for simplifying your .emacs