Company and Corfu

Company and Corfu

[Heime via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor]

I use Company for text completion.  Have seen Corfu but I am unsure what it does
exactly.  It seem to provide command completion in the minibuffer rather than
text completion.  Is this so?

Re: Company and Corfu

[Joel Reicher]

Heime via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor 
<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:

> I use Company for text completion.  Have seen Corfu but I am 
> unsure what it does exactly.  It seem to provide command 
> completion in the minibuffer rather than text completion.  Is 
> this so?

https://github.com/minad/corfu?tab=readme-ov-file#readme

Regards,

        - Joel

Re: Company and Corfu

[Heime via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor]

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On Thursday, December 5th, 2024 at 1:33 PM, Joel Reicher <joel.reicher@gmail.com> wrote:

> Heime via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
> help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org writes:
> 
> > I use Company for text completion. Have seen Corfu but I am
> > unsure what it does exactly. It seem to provide command
> > completion in the minibuffer rather than text completion. Is
> > this so?
> 
> 
> https://github.com/minad/corfu?tab=readme-ov-file#readme
> 
> Regards, - Joel

Looked there already.  Whilst it mentions in-buffer completion with a small 
completion popup and how its counterpart is the Vertico minibuffer UI.

It does not say what type of completion  it does.  Vertico is for command emacs 
completion completion in the minibuffer.  Is Corfu the same?  Does anyone use
Corfu?  

Re: Company and Corfu

[Joost Kremers]

On Thu, Dec 05 2024, Heime via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor wrote:
>> https://github.com/minad/corfu?tab=readme-ov-file#readme
>
> Looked there already.

Well, it provides all the info you are asking for, so... It starts with
"Corfu enhances in-buffer completion with a small completion popup", and
under "Alternatives", it says: "Company: Company is a widely used and
mature completion package, which implements a similar UI as Corfu", and
then goes on to explain the differences between Company and Corfu, which
are all technical in nature.

>  Does anyone use Corfu?  

Yes.


-- 
Joost Kremers
Life has its moments

Re: Company and Corfu

[Heime via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor]

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On Friday, December 6th, 2024 at 3:14 AM, Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 05 2024, Heime via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor wrote:
> 
> > > https://github.com/minad/corfu?tab=readme-ov-file#readme
> > 
> > Looked there already.
> 
> 
> Well, it provides all the info you are asking for, so... It starts with
> "Corfu enhances in-buffer completion with a small completion popup", and
> under "Alternatives", it says: "Company: Company is a widely used and
> mature completion package, which implements a similar UI as Corfu", and
> then goes on to explain the differences between Company and Corfu, which
> are all technical in nature.
> 
> > Does anyone use Corfu?
> 
> 
> Yes. -- Joost Kremers

Looks like Corfu can do both text completion (similar to Company) and mini-buffer
completion  (similar to orderless).