Streamline Your Emacs Completions with Vertico

[@damickillah]

The easiest way to execute a elisp expression or code block(s) is to simply select the code you wish to execute and type `C-x C-e`. For those who may be confused about the keybinding, it is Contrl Key + x and then Control Key + e (if on a mac, it is Command Key + x and then Command Key + e). That is, if you haven't changed your default Emacs keybindings.

[@dionbridger5944]

I've been using vertico for a few months now thanks to this video and have to say nothing else feels natural anymore!!

[@JohnDegen_aka_Jeehannes]

Your videos brought back the fun in Emacs for me. Great stuff and I love Vertico. I used Ivy before and on returning to Emacs after some years I was looking for similar functionality.

[@SystemCrafters]

I'm glad to hear that! Vertico is really nice, I still enjoy using it daily

[@tsiiphsycoii]

Nice video, I'm giving Vertico a shot. Please add the Repo to your description.

[@SystemCrafters]

It's in the show notes but I'll also add it to the description. Thanks!

[@f23anone82]

Great video as always! Could, you, please, also turn on screen keys?

[@SystemCrafters]

Yep, I need to do that more reliably when recording, sorry about that!

[@wayland8770]

Love your channel! So if I'm using ivy or helm I can just remove them and replace with this?

[@SystemCrafters]

Thanks! You'll need some additional packages to replicate all of the functionality that you'd get with Ivy or Helm, the list of suggested packages I mention at the end of the video should point you in the right direction.

[@holgerschurig4430]

No. Vertico is just completion, nothing else. To get some additional things out of it, one can however use it with marginalia (as shown) or with consult (just mentioned).

[@pm71241]

Damn... I just thought I've found the most useful completion in ivy - after having concluded helm didn't make stuff easier.

[@dloyolam]

Cool, I'll give it a try. Thanks!

[@dloyolam]

I did, and it's here to stay. Farewell to Ivy!

[@herrpez]

Well hey, I installed it and apparently it also speeds up my Emacs startup a little bit over ido.

[@elrisitas8508]

is there a way to make vertico insert dashes when i press , like in defaut emacs?

[@gksudolol]

Great video David, only feature holding me back from using Vertico is posframe

[@SystemCrafters]

I hadn't thought about what the difference would be for posframe and Vertico, I'll look into it!

[@SystemCrafters]

minad has put together a new package which might work well for you if you don't use EXWM: github.com/minad/mini-popup/

[@gksudolol]

@@SystemCrafters Thank you! Is there any downsides to using this with EXWM? As I'm full-time EXWM

[@SystemCrafters]

Ahhh yeah, it doesn't work well with EXWM :( Minad suggested another package called mini-frame but it isn't perfect either. I haven't tried it yet

[@gksudolol]

@@SystemCrafters That's a shame, thanks for all your help though. I'll look more into mini-frame and posframe

[@quinnculver4336]

Thanks!

[@alexei3366]

I use "ido" mode conveniently. Only one thing is missing. When press "M-x" show only methods name. But I also need to show a keybinding of this methods.

[@MarcoPrevedello92]

Checkout marginalia (:

[@emvdl]

Thanks

[@pakkimz6521]

can we ignore star buffer with consult?

[@faerryn8708]

Do you get vertico to play nice with Tramp? Vertico messes up the password entry and everything.

[@SystemCrafters]

There's an issue on the GitHub repo about that: github.com/minad/vertico/issues/23

[@apoorv9492]

Can you make a video about various chat application packages for Emacs like mastodon, matrix-client, rocket-chat, and all.

[@SystemCrafters]

I would certainly like to! Not sure when I will get to it, though

[@kevyyar]

Where should I start to learn all of this from scratch? I use arch btw lol but seriously I need a setup like this.

[@SystemCrafters]

Check out the playlists I have linked in the description, specifically Emacs From Scratch and Emacs Essentials!

[@holgerschurig4430]

It's unclear why one would want to use Vertico over Selectrum. Which also plugs in into the default Emacs completion framework.

[@dmitriykuragin]

Seems like it works the same way ivy does by replacing content of mini buffer. And all of completion engines work by extending read-completions function. How is it different from ivy from UI prospective? For me, it looks the same…

[@clone256]

ivy replaces completing-read-function while vertico just adds around advice affecting how completions are displayed. This means vertico respects completion-styles for example

[@SKAVS]

We dont no what emacs is 😡 who are you and why have are name 😳