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I am a helm user. Am I missing out too much by not checking out Vertico, Embark, Corfu and friends?
by textread 3y ago
I am a helm user. Am I missing out too much by not checking out Vertico, Embark, Corfu and friends?
- medstrom 3y agoYou're not missing out feature-wise, no. Helm is the original kitchen sink power tool on this front. The Vertico-stack is interesting for different reasons, like simplicity of implementation.
- cmrdporcupine 3y agoI have tried various things for completion, etc over the years, and found Helm just too 'deep' of a topic to dig into... but vertico is the first time any of these things just 'clicked' and it's improved my experience of emacs 10-fold.
- textread 3y agoFor me, helm kinda clicked after a careful reading of its author's blogpost at https://tuhdo.github.io/helm-intro.html https://tuhdo.github.io/helm-intro.html Somehow, I feel like, if I were to configure vertico etc to my liking, I might just end up recreating a ductaped version of helm.
- medstrom 3y agoYou just unlocked a memory of when I found Helm intimidating just because some of its behavior surprised me on my initial tryouts. After reading the manual, it was actually much simpler than it had seemed.
- lvass 3y agoIIRC helm doesn't provide complete-at-point so Corfu would be in a different category. Otherwise no, helm is really featureful and works pretty nice out-of-the-box, those packages are far more lean and probably easier to hack on.
- textread 3y agoMy bad, so Corfu is in the category of Company mode.