Re: [ELPA] New package: vertico

[Daniel Mendler <mail@daniel-mendler.de>]

Hi Tassilo!

> I've tried and liked it and I've also worked on my aggressive-completion
> package to make it usable with vertico.  aggressive-completion basically
> hits TAB for you during minibuffer completion in order to release stress
> from your pinky.

That's an interesting idea. I've seen your package before, but didn't 
read through the whole thread.

> Right now, I'm using aggressive-completion-mode together with vertico
> using this configuration:
I will give this a try!

> Now I have two questions:
> 
> 1. Shouldn't there be a command like `th/vertico-complete' which
>     completes the common part of the candidates?

Vertico follows the design where you put less importance on the 
prefix/TAB completion but instead excepts the user to enter more text 
for narrowing, which works well with the orderless completion style.

But note that Vertico is fully compatible with default completion, so as 
you observed you can just use `minibuffer-complete`. If you bind 
`minibuffer-complete` to the `vertico-map` it will work. See 
https://github.com/minad/vertico#keymap.

Is that good enough or do you have something else in mind?

> 2. One annoying effect with the above command and vertico is that the
>     typical completion messages such as "Next char not unique" bump point
>     to the right, i.e., with stock minibuffer completion you have
> 
>       my-input| [Next char not unique]
> 
>     whereas with vertico you have
> 
>       my-input [Next char not unique]|
> 
>     where | indicates point.  Why is that?

Yes, I've also observed issues with minibuffer messages appearing at the 
wrong place. Vertico uses overlays to display the candidate count and 
the candidate list, similar to Icomplete. Icomplete however removes the 
overlay in the pre-command-hook and puts the overlay back in the 
post-command-hook. I am not doing that. I just move the overlay to the 
end but it seems this solution is not good enough. Since I have not yet 
understood fully what the problem is I haven't done anything yet to fix 
the issue.

Besides, my recommendation would be to deactivate those messages. I 
think they are pretty annoying. I suspect even more so in combination 
with aggressive-completion.

(advice-add #'vertico--setup :after
             (lambda (&rest _)
               (setq-local completion-auto-help nil
                           completion-show-inline-help nil)))

> Thanks for the nice package!

Thank you!

Daniel Mendler