New package: Vcomplete - visual enhancements to the default completion interface

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  • embark

    Emacs Mini-Buffer Actions Rooted in Keymaps

  • You may have seen my Consult package and the Marginalia package, made by /u/oantolin and myself. These packages should mostly work out of the box with your completion UI. Then there is Omar's Embark which allows to execute actions on the completion candidate at point in the *Completions* buffer. You may also be interested in the Orderless completion style.

  • consult

    :mag: consult.el - Consulting completing-read

  • You may have seen my Consult package and the Marginalia package, made by /u/oantolin and myself. These packages should mostly work out of the box with your completion UI. Then there is Omar's Embark which allows to execute actions on the completion candidate at point in the *Completions* buffer. You may also be interested in the Orderless completion style.

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  • marginalia

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

  • You may have seen my Consult package and the Marginalia package, made by /u/oantolin and myself. These packages should mostly work out of the box with your completion UI. Then there is Omar's Embark which allows to execute actions on the completion candidate at point in the *Completions* buffer. You may also be interested in the Orderless completion style.

  • orderless

    Emacs completion style that matches multiple regexps in any order

  • You may have seen my Consult package and the Marginalia package, made by /u/oantolin and myself. These packages should mostly work out of the box with your completion UI. Then there is Omar's Embark which allows to execute actions on the completion candidate at point in the *Completions* buffer. You may also be interested in the Orderless completion style.

  • eglot

    A client for Language Server Protocol servers

  • In general when designing this package I've made sure to rely on the existing capabilities of the default completion interface - vcomplete-next/prev-completion both rely on the built in next-completion (which is bound to TAB in the completion list buffer by default), vcomplete-choose-completion just switches to the completion list buffer and calls choose-completion to choose the completion at point. This is done to avoid direct handling of completion tables (in my experience, packages that make use of advanced features of the completion system tend to break with custom completion functions which directly read the completion table, see for example https://github.com/joaotavora/eglot/issues/577 (BTW, this issue might happen with Consult's completion-in-region function too)).

  • live-completions

    Live updating of the *Completions* buffer

  • I too am guilty of once writing a package that updates the *Completions* buffer as you type: live-completions. My package didn't have a way to move the "currently selected" completion from the minibuffer (because I didn't mind switching to the completions buffer for that). Recently u/protesilaos also wrote his own version, in prot-minibuffer.el. I'm sure there are many other examples.

  • redid

    A file manager for Emacs

  • Ever tried to open the MELPA recipes directory with dired? It's slow as hell. Even a naïve PoC based on Navigel which I wrote in a couple of hours opens it in less than a second (even when using the full columns)!

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