marginalia VS exwm

Compare marginalia vs exwm and see what are their differences.

marginalia

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

exwm

Emacs X Window Manager (by ch11ng)
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marginalia exwm
27 85
687 2,860
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7.3 6.7
12 days ago about 2 months 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.

exwm

Posts with mentions or reviews of exwm. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-01.

What are some alternatives?

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

i3 - A tiling window manager for X11

Amethyst - Automatic tiling window manager for macOS à la xmonad.

krohnkite - A dynamic tiling extension for KWin

nyxt - Nyxt - the hacker's browser.

stumpwm-contrib - Extension Modules for StumpWM

i3-multimonitor-workspace - i3wm Multi-Monitor workspace

embark - Emacs Mini-Buffer Actions Rooted in Keymaps

brotab - Control your browser's tabs from the command line

emacs-libvterm - Emacs libvterm integration

i3-gaps - i3-gaps – i3 with more features (forked from https://github.com/i3/i3)

neovide - No Nonsense Neovim Client in Rust

polybar - A fast and easy-to-use status bar