sudo-edit VS selectrum

I use the sudo-edit package: https://github.com/nflath/sudo-edit

Don't worry, you didn't miss it: it does not come with Embark. For this I would recommend installing sudo-edit and binding the sudo-edit-find-file command in both embark-file-map to use as a file action, and in embark-become-file+buffer-map if you use embark-become. Something like this, if you happen to use use-package:

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https://github.com/radian-software/selectrum is getting superceded by https://github.com/minad/vertico within just a year or two.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