helpful

Tech stack & purpose

Helpful is an Emacs package that provides an enhanced alternative to the built-in help buffer, offering more contextual information when looking up functions, variables, commands, and other symbols. The project displays source code for interactively defined functions, shows where functions are called, prettifies docstrings with cross-references and Info manual links, reveals symbol properties and aliases, and integrates debugging and tracing tools directly into the help interface. It is written in Emacs Lisp and can be installed from MELPA, with optional integration for Ivy users through counsel commands. The project was created by Wilfred and is licensed under GPLv3+.

Community & reference links

• Dave Williams' demo of Lucid's Energize

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  Wilfred Hughes445 commits · 1,237 followers
• Nick Drozd27 commits
• Narendra Joshi5 commits
• Damien Cassou4 commits
• Kisaragi Hiu4 commits
• StrawberryTea3 commits
• Alexander Miller3 commits
• Nikita Bloshchanevich2 commits
• Xiyue Deng2 commits
• xeals2 commits
• Erik Šabič2 commits
• yuhan02 commits
• Sean Allred2 commits
• Daniel Nagy2 commits
• Chunyang Xu1 commits
• Dario Gjorgjevski1 commits
• Erik Arvstedt1 commits
• Daniel Martín1 commits
• David Shepherd1 commits
• Richard M.1 commits
• Roshan Shariff1 commits
• ksqsf1 commits
• Johann Klähn1 commits
• Nacho Barrientos1 commits
• JenChieh1 commits
• Sau P1 commits
• Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong1 commits
• Nathan Moreau1 commits
• CeleritasCelery1 commits
• Mekeor Melire1 commits