marginalia VS use-package

Compare marginalia vs use-package and see what are their differences.

marginalia

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

use-package

A use-package declaration for simplifying your .emacs (by jwiegley)
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marginalia use-package
27 67
687 4,363
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7.3 2.3
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.

use-package

Posts with mentions or reviews of use-package. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-29.
  • Use-Package & different key bindings based on host computer
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 29 Jun 2023
    Another way would be to redefine parts of the bind-key macro or its use-package support functions
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 29 Jun 2023
    I am not sure but the maybe the solution in this issue would point you to the right direction.
  • Can't remove Emacs as "cask emacs is not installed"
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 1 Jun 2023
    The package-install call installs use-package that provides a utility of the same name to make it easier to manage packages. It's admittedly a little overkill for this specific config, but it's a cheap investment that sets you up for later success.
  • symbols function definition is void: map!
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 22 May 2023
    Granted, the Doom macro makes your code looks nice and compact. But you can get very close to that just by using do-list and define-key together. Or by using the bind-key.el package, which is included with Use-package.
  • Clojure Turns 15 panel discussion video
    24 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Feb 2023
    > Deps is well documented.

    > The issue I personally found is that I needed to look at a bunch of OS project's deps.edn to see how people commonly structure things. Other than that it is a simple tool.

    This strikes me as a contradiction, because if it was well documented you wouldn’t need to look at other people’s configs to see how to use it.

    My experience with deps.edn is that every time I start a project and make a deps.edn file, I immediately draw a blank and don’t know how to structure it, so I open ones from other projects to start lifting stuff out of them.

    I still don’t know how to reliably configure a project to use nrepl or socket repl without just using an editor plugin. I definitely have no idea how to use those in conjunction with a tool like reveal.

    To me, none of that is simple. Simple would be like Emacs’ use-package. With that I know how to add dependencies, specify keybinds, and do initialization and configuration off the top of my head. And it has really nice documentation with tons of examples.

    https://github.com/jwiegley/use-package

  • Newbie here! Need Help!
    6 projects | /r/emacs | 29 Jan 2023
    Since you are doing code development, the first things to go for would be setting up your emacs packaging (installing use-package and melpa (use-package's documentation covers this) so you have more packages to choose from (do be careful to not just pick things willy nilly but research them a bit first)) and then setting up lsp-mode. lsp-mode lets you use LSP servers for the specific programming languages you work with in a somewhat unified fashion. You then need to install and setup the LSP servers for the languages you use, and possibly install language specific Emacs packages as support (note, Emacs has builtin functionality for many).
  • Unable to display ligatures in Emacs
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 6 Jan 2023
    I'm using use-package as my package manager and the package ligature for the ligatures.
  • Boilerplate config
    9 projects | /r/emacs | 4 Jan 2023
    I have been crafting my emacs config for about 10 years. I started with vanilla and intentionally stayed away from frameworks. About two years ago I declared config bankruptcy and went down for a rewrite using use-package and straight.
  • what is basic alghoritm/logic of installation packages to emacs?
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 18 Dec 2022
    ref: https://github.com/radian-software/straight.el https://github.com/jwiegley/use-package
  • Visual code folding?
    8 projects | /r/emacs | 27 Nov 2022
    use-package! is a macro over use-package, and respect its syntax, with a few additions. Useful reference on use-package keywords.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing marginalia and use-package you can also consider the following projects:

leaf.el - Flexible, declarative, and modern init.el package configuration

straight.el - 🍀 Next-generation, purely functional package manager for the Emacs hacker.

emacs-overlay - Bleeding edge emacs overlay [maintainer=@adisbladis]

nano-emacs - GNU Emacs / N Λ N O - Emacs made simple

org-super-agenda - Supercharge your Org daily/weekly agenda by grouping items

melpa - Recipes and build machinery for the biggest Emacs package repo

emacs-which-key - Emacs package that displays available keybindings in popup

general.el - More convenient key definitions in emacs

embark - Emacs Mini-Buffer Actions Rooted in Keymaps

modus-themes - Highly accessible themes for GNU Emacs, conforming with the highest standard for colour contrast between background and foreground values (WCAG AAA).

selectrum - 🔔 Better solution for incremental narrowing in Emacs.

evil-collection - A set of keybindings for evil-mode