Helm won't let me select available emacs commands

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I have emacs set up so that when I type M-x the helm completion buffer pops up. My problem is that helm wont let me select M-x align if I have previously called M-x align-current, because it is only letting me select the completion from the Command History List and not the list of all available commands.

Any idea how I can overcome this problem?

have you tried (helm-autoresize-mode t) ? This should resize the helm buffer to fit the completions, it may then also show the list of all available commands (not only the command history). — relativitaet, Mar 23 '17 at 13:14

score 10 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:38

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You can press C-o to switch to the other list (I also found this behaviour unintuitive when I started using Helm). Alternatively, if you want to always be able to move to the Emacs Command list, evaluate the following snippet:

(setq helm-move-to-line-cycle-in-source nil)

Here's a duplicate as a Github issue: https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm/issues/683

And here's a duplicate from SO: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27645582/emacs-helm-m-x-how-to-jump-to-the-list-of-historical-command

To read the helm M-x documentation you can press C-c ? after invoking helm.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:38

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answered Mar 23 '17 at 18:18

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Thank you very much. C-o was exactly what I was looking for. Cheers. – Andrew Mar 25 '17 at 10:21

Helm won't let me select available emacs commands

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