marginalia VS corfu

Compare marginalia vs corfu and see what are their differences.

marginalia

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

corfu

:desert_island: corfu.el - COmpletion in Region FUnction (by minad)
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marginalia corfu
27 44
687 992
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7.3 8.8
13 days ago 9 days ago
Emacs Lisp Emacs Lisp
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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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.

corfu

Posts with mentions or reviews of corfu. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-17.
  • is it just me, or LSP mode is very slow in emacs?
    5 projects | /r/emacs | 17 May 2023
  • Returning emacs user - what packages are common now?
    9 projects | /r/emacs | 9 May 2023
    A substantial section of the community is using corfu instead of company, but I wouldn't say company is out of date by any means. In emacs 29 eglot will be a built in, which might act as a replacement for lsp-mode depending on what functionality you need.
  • 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.
  • How do I take priority from Evil's escape key?
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 5 Apr 2023
    I am currently using evil and corfu, but I want to configure such that pressing a single escape will invoke corfu-quit when its UI is active (because pressing "C-g" is harder).
  • Emacs lags when making the auto completion pop-up with corfu
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 17 Mar 2023
    A few days ago I found an unexplained slowness when using Corfu on Emacs 29 with pgtk. I stripped my configuration to basically just Corfu, and still had a noticeable delay. Maybe it is related to your problem. https://github.com/minad/corfu/issues/307
  • Replacing strings with Unicode symbols.
    9 projects | /r/emacs | 14 Mar 2023
    The most straight forward solution is probably the package company-math. (that's what I use but with corfu and cape)
  • What's this?
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 12 Feb 2023
    By chance I just saw this. Should be fixed by https://github.com/minad/corfu/commit/1575e42dd5aa9a10932e6f2ecd063968210c258b.
  • Like company-org-block, but for completion-at-point, corfu, and friends…
    6 projects | /r/emacs | 22 Jan 2023
    Some background history: I (meliache on mastodon/github) asked xenodium on mastodon why company-org-block needs company as a dependency. Back in the day, company was the de-facto completion backend used by most emacs users and many completions were implemented as company backends. But now the emacs builtin completion-at-point,which uses completion-at-point-functions (capf'​​s​), has become more mature and there are packages like corfu that extend that functionality. Most new packages therefore add completions as capfs, which remain compatible with company via thecompany-capf backend. Previously, I had used cape-company-to-capf to convert the company-org-blockbackend to a capf and used that, which worked, but it meant that I still had a company dependency in my setup.
  • Compat 29.1.3.0
    6 projects | /r/emacs | 22 Jan 2023
    Compat is already widely rolled and may already be part of your setup, since it is used by the current Magit development version. I use Compat in all of my packages, including Vertico, Consult and Corfu. My packages usually depend on Emacs 27.1, which is not that far back. Given Compat I can keep supporting 27.1 for the foreseeable future. The reason for not supporting older Emacs versions is that these packages rely on proper behavior of the Emacs display engine. These examples show the limitations of Compat - while we can "polyfill" missing functions, we cannot fix bugs in the display engine or backport features relying on internals of the C runtime system.
  • Replacing packages with more "stripped down" packages
    9 projects | /r/emacs | 19 Dec 2022
    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.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing marginalia and corfu you can also consider the following projects:

company-mode - Modular in-buffer completion framework for Emacs

emacs-jedi - Python auto-completion for Emacs

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

company-box - A company front-end with icons

company-quickhelp - Documentation popup for Company

posframe - Pop a posframe (just a child-frame) at point, posframe is a **GNU ELPA** package!

auto-complete - Emacs auto-complete package

lsp-pyright - lsp-mode :heart: pyright

consult - :mag: consult.el - Consulting completing-read

embark - Emacs Mini-Buffer Actions Rooted in Keymaps

consult-flycheck - Consult integration for Flycheck

pylance-release - Documentation and issues for Pylance