selectrum VS ivy-rich

Selectrum's wiki has some basic info on completing-read: https://github.com/radian-software/selectrum/wiki/Tips-for-Creating-Commands

[1] https://github.com/radian-software/selectrum/issues/114

I noticed over the weekend that the venerable Selectrum package made by Radon Rosborough has been deprecated in favor of Daniel Mendler's Vertico package.

https://github.com/radian-software/selectrum is getting superceded by https://github.com/minad/vertico within just a year or two.

I have been using straight for a while now and I think it is great! The ability to lazy load everything by default does a lot to make Emacs snappier (or at the very least, faster to boot). Being able to pull packages directly from git (be it local or a forge) makes package development a lot easier. raxod has a lot of really sleek, modern emacs packages that I would encourage everyone to check out, spectrum[0] and ctrf[1] in particular are really great as well.

[0] https://github.com/radian-software/selectrum

selectrum

;;https://github.com/raxod502/selectrum (defun force-debug (func &rest args) (condition-case e (apply func args) ((debug error) (signal (car e) (cdr e))))) (advice-add #'selectrum--minibuffer-post-command-hook :around #'force-debug) (selectrum-mode +1) ;; to make sorting and filtering more intelligent (selectrum-prescient-mode +1) ;; to save your command history on disk, so the sorting gets more ;; intelligent over time (prescient-persist-mode +1) (setq completion-styles '(orderless)) ;; Persist history over Emacs restarts (savehist-mode) ;; Optional performance optimization ;; by highlighting only the visible candidates. (setq orderless-skip-highlighting (lambda () selectrum-is-active)) (setq selectrum-highlight-candidates-function #'orderless-highlight-matches) (setq selectrum-prescient-enable-filtering nil) (selectrum-prescient-mode +1) (prescient-persist-mode +1) (use-package marginalia :ensure t :config (marginalia-mode)) (use-package embark :ensure t :bind (("C-." . embark-act) ;; pick some comfortable binding ("C-;" . embark-dwim) ;; good alternative: M-. ("C-h B" . embark-bindings)) ;; alternative for \describe-bindings' :init ;; Optionally replace the key help with a completing-read interface (setq prefix-help-command #'embark-prefix-help-command) :config ;; Hide the mode line of the Embark live/completions buffers (add-to-list 'display-buffer-alist '("\`\Embark Collect \(Live\|Completions\)\" nil (window-parameters (mode-line-format . none))))) ;; Consult users will also want the embark-consult package. (use-package embark-consult :ensure t :after (embark consult) :demand t ; only necessary if you have the hook below ;; if you want to have consult previews as you move around an ;; auto-updating embark collect buffer :hook (embark-collect-mode . consult-preview-at-point-mode))`

Selectrum and Prescient would be nice.

The screenshot might picture marginalia as another user already mentioned. What package you want to use depends on the completion framework you are using. For built in completion framework together with vertico, icomplete or selectrum marginalia is the package you want. If you are using ivy instead, then ivy-rich provides this functionality. Surely helm has some similar functionality.

Check out the package itself and some screenshots

Some examples of what I am talking about: https://github.com/Yevgnen/ivy-rich/blob/master/screenshots.org

From looking at these examples, no. This is what the shortdocs look like: https://imgur.com/5pIu9A6.png. A brief summary, grouped by kinds of operations with examples. Built into Emacs, linked to from the *Help* buffer no external documentation is required.

Having been a longtime user of ido and smex, I decided to give ivy/counsel a try. Overall, I like it very much. I like that the key-bindings are more consistent with Emacs conventions, and I like how it can be extended with packages like ivy-rich and all-the-icons-ivy-rich to add useful auxiliary information and give it a more modern looking interface. But there are still a few things that I can't wrap my head around, and for which I couldn't find a satisfactory answer online:

fyi, opened an issue on this: https://github.com/Yevgnen/ivy-rich/issues/102