On: On Emacs 28’ context menu and Unix mouse-usage in general

[taeric]

What are the new better completion frameworks? And in contrast to which older one? (Asking as a helm user.)

[yepguy → taeric]

The newest kid on the block is vertico - commonly used together with consult, embark, marginalia, and orderless to replace helm or ivy.

[omaranto → yepguy]

It feels so weird seeing my packages mentioned on Hacker News! (I wrote embark and orderless and cowrote marginalia.)

[jonpalmisc → taeric]

I only got into Emacs last year or so, but I’ve never used anything but company-mode. I’m also curious if this is what they are talking about or if there’s something else I’m missing.

[cjauvin → jonpalmisc]

They are talking about frameworks leveraging and extending the builtin Emacs completition mechanism [1]. The most well known ones are Ivy and Helm, I believe, but there are now many others.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Co...

[jonpalmisc → cjauvin]

I realized this after it was too late to edit my comment. Apparently a year of using Emacs is not enough to stop confusing “completion” and “auto-completion” in my head..