marginalia VS all-the-icons.el

Compare marginalia vs all-the-icons.el and see what are their differences.

marginalia

:scroll: marginalia.el - Marginalia in the minibuffer (by minad)

all-the-icons.el

A utility package to collect various Icon Fonts and propertize them within Emacs. (by domtronn)
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marginalia all-the-icons.el
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Emacs Lisp Emacs Lisp
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marginalia

Posts with mentions or reviews of marginalia. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-04.
  • Emacs Commands I Got by with for Years
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Jan 2024
    Check out marginalia[1]. Whenever you press M-x, it will pop up a buffer showing all the commands (with most recent ones on top) along with their keybindings and a brief description of what they do.

    Embark[2] is also cool. It will show all the possible commands relevant to where the cursor is at that moment. I bind it to C-c a.

    [1] https://github.com/minad/marginalia

  • Packages that you would like to be in emacs core ?
    10 projects | /r/emacs | 11 Dec 2023
    Then there is Marginalia which is IMO essential
  • Emacs Advent Calendar 7: ordeless, embark 1.0 and some bric-a-brac
    9 projects | /r/emacs | 7 Dec 2023
    marginalia. Informative annotations for minibuffer completion candidates, co-written with u/minad-emacs.
  • Why does elpaca make emacs startup so much faster?
    9 projects | /r/emacs | 23 Apr 2023
    Wow, interesting that my response is getting down voted. It seems not enough that I give away my work for free. Nevertheless I appreciate support from the community, as other Emacs package developers. The support is actually helpful. To clarify, publishing my configuration would translate into quite a bit of work, requiring separation of private and public bits.
  • Doom -> vanilla emacs 29
    8 projects | /r/emacs | 14 Apr 2023
    marginalia for extra info in the minibuffer
  • (void-variable string-width) error by consult-buffer
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 10 Apr 2023
    There seems to be some problem with straight not correctly installing or updating compat. See these issues on Marginalia and Embark where straight seems to not install Compat.
  • What does Vertico offer over icomplete-vertical?
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 24 Feb 2023
    Note that I contribute to Emacs core itself from time to time but the process is discussion-heavy and thus time consuming. If you are familiar with the completing-read API, you may know the annotation-function of completion tables. The name already tells that this function just adds annotations to the completion candidates. The Marginalia package (written by /u/oantolin and me) provides such annotations. A similar function is the group-function, which groups candidates in subsets and adds titles above the subsets. I wrote the patch which added this feature to Emacs. It is now supported by default completion, Icomplete, Vertico and maybe other UIs. The initial implementation was done in the earlier Selectrum package, and a little later in Vertico.
  • [ANN] Vertico 1.0 and Marginalia 1.0
    3 projects | /r/emacs | 22 Dec 2022
    At the end of the year, I am happy to announce the stable Vertico 1.0 and Marginalia 1.0 releases. Vertico is a minimalist, yet flexible and responsive vertical completion UI. Marginalia provides helpful annotations for many completion contexts. Both packages have been solid for a while but I rather let things mature slowly. These releases finally put the stamp "stable" on these two packages. I expect the other members of the package suite to follow soon after. Both packages have been updated recently to support the newest Emacs 29 features. They are compatible with Emacs 27, 28 and the upcoming 29.
  • org-cc: Custom completions for Org (WIP)
    9 projects | /r/emacs | 22 Nov 2022
    I) I started out trying to implement this using marginalia, like the consult commands, but quickly concluded that this wasn't the way to go here... please correct me if I'm wrong and there is more from these packages I could make use of. I also try to make use of as much of the citar codebase as possible, but have found it difficult so far: a lot seems too specific for bibliographic entries.
  • Idea/Question: Using "feature-full" packages (e.g. dired) for completion?
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 8 Sep 2022
    I can't find anything that seems to discuss them in detail, but Marginalia is a package that applies them widely in completion. And here is a simple example for customized file completion.

all-the-icons.el

Posts with mentions or reviews of all-the-icons.el. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-30.
  • Package to display org headings spatially?
    7 projects | /r/orgmode | 30 Dec 2022
    Isn't a "pile" just an "unorganized map"? Really, if you think of it: a pile of papers on a desk, could as well sitt in a folder. That should bring you back to normal desktop paradigm. Now implementing headings as "folders" shouldn't be overly difficult. You could implement a "pile" of headings as just subheadings to top headings and also render those top headings as either: svg icons, check for example svg-library by /u/Nicolas-Rougier, or you could use font-icons like in font-awesome or all-the-icons, to replace top-headings with an image or a font-icon. You would probably have to write your own minor-mode but it shouldn't be very difficult. You will probably need to use invisible-text property to hide headings and replace them with icons (that is normally how org and outline modes "fold" and "expand" content in headings), but that should not be very difficult.
  • org-cc: Custom completions for Org (WIP)
    9 projects | /r/emacs | 22 Nov 2022
    In the org-mode buffer (upper part of pic): Iosevka Aile 15. In the minibuffer (lower part of pic): Iosevka 15. For the star icon: Font Awesome via all-the-icons.el.
  • My boss said use vs code it will give side tree and terminal. I did this for him.
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 11 Mar 2022
  • Elisp completion with icons using default company-mode frontend
    5 projects | /r/emacs | 8 Apr 2021
    In the meantime, you can get the missing definitions using this config: https://github.com/domtronn/all-the-icons.el/issues/220#issuecomment-750989401
  • Good font for WSL/vcxsrv and Spacemacs?
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 19 Feb 2021
    Works perfectly fine and looks good to me. Additionally, I also have the all-the-icons fonts to support doom-modeline.
  • How I set up my emacs for TypeScript
    4 projects | dev.to | 10 Oct 2020
    I also use neotree with all-the-icons to create my sidebar. Since this text is already too long, I will write about this specific config another day :)

What are some alternatives?

When comparing marginalia and all-the-icons.el you can also consider the following projects:

nerd-fonts - Iconic font aggregator, collection, & patcher. 3,600+ icons, 50+ patched fonts: Hack, Source Code Pro, more. Glyph collections: Font Awesome, Material Design Icons, Octicons, & more

embark - Emacs Mini-Buffer Actions Rooted in Keymaps

corfu - :desert_island: corfu.el - COmpletion in Region FUnction

eglot - A client for Language Server Protocol servers

org-remark - Highlight & annotate text, EWW, Info, and EPUB

vertico - :dizzy: vertico.el - VERTical Interactive COmpletion

emacs-libvterm - Emacs libvterm integration

emacs-gcc-wayland-devel-builder - Emacs with native compilation ("gcc") and Wayland support

company-box - A company front-end with icons

icomplete-vertical - Global Emacs minor mode to display icomplete candidates vertically

selectrum - 🔔 Better solution for incremental narrowing in Emacs.

exwm - Emacs X Window Manager