Re: Why not include all ELPA packages in an Emacs release?

[Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>]

Arash Esbati <arash@gnu.org> writes:

> Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:
>
>> I am not familiar with cape,
>
> Cape offers CAPFs, but I think one great featuzre is that you can switch
> the CAPF function during completion with something like this in your
> init file:
>
> (use-package cape
>   :bind (:map corfu-map
>               ("C-c p d" . cape-dabbrev)
>               ("C-c p f" . cape-file)
>               ("C-c p s" . cape-elisp-symbol)
>               ("C-c p w" . ispell-completion-at-point)
>               ("C-c p :" . cape-emoji)))

I tried it out, and it doesn't seem to work that well without something
like corfu or vertico.  Generally it seems like an example where
"completion" is misinterpreted to mean "selection".

>> but IIRC the issue with corfu is that without any further changes, it
>> doesn't support non-graphical Emacs, right?
>
> True, there is corfu-terminal.el for that (which I've never used).
>
>> "Better", in this case, than `fido-vertical-mode'?
>
> I admit I've never used `fido-vertical-mode', so I can't offer a serious
> comparison, sorry.

That's fine.

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