rune-emacs-config VS company-mode

I made a concerted effort not to use evil or try to ape all the Doom keybindings like I did with my previous attempt.

you can try to reorganize things by making modules out of parts of your config. There is a drawback to this: slower init time. Check this out to see how easily you can do it with the help of use-package

This isn't really complete but if you want to take a quick look at how you can easily set up evil and have all your 5DD and ZZ back without any pain, try looking at it. https://github.com/skyler544/rune-emacs-config

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.