AutoComplPop VS company-mode

For normal plugins like AuotoComplPop are also decent and provide a great beginner experience.

For my auto-comepltion system I have been using AutoComplPop which is perfect for me. Basically all this does is open the completion menu when I start typing.

I am currently trying to port something that I have used in vim for a very long time and love a lot over to emacs, but I am having a lot of trouble figuring out how. vim has, much like emacs, a built-in completion system which allows you to complete words using control + n/p. While researching what completion system I wanted in vim awhile ago I found a plugin called AutoCompPop which uses that built-in completion and simply opens up the built-in menu for navigating that completion every time you start typing. For me this is perfect, it allows me to have full extremely lightweight completion of everything in the current buffer without having to deal with a massive system like YouCompleteMe.

You have to install https://github.com/vim-scripts/AutoComplPop and

True, though in principle you could make it "automatic" by using AutoComplPop.

I'm curious to know what `company` does differently here than `corfu`. As a longtime user I couldn't be happier.

https://company-mode.github.io/

they wrote the first word and auto-completed the rest

For me, it's http://company-mode.github.io and maybe a touch of all-the-icons..

I'm not sure if I did anything special to enable it, but I'm pretty sure company-mode does this

When I started using Emacs I was following the setup outlined by System Crafters, which I still think is a really good introduction. But, over the last few months I've started to replace packages with more "minimalist" or "stripped down" packages. I've switched from Ivy and Counsel to Vertico and Consult, and recently I switched from company to corfu for auto-completion.

As for the Emacs configuration, you should only need a few lines of code, in order to get them up and running, if you are planning to keep your setup as close to vanilla as possible. If you are interested, you could additionally install a completion framework like company-mode to help you out.

As for auto-completion, there's a few different variants that people use. Auto-complete being one of them, but an alternative you might want to try is http://company-mode.github.io/

For the company-mode see Frontends.

Company is a classic, though corfu and cape, also by Daniel Mendler is really excellent.