Emacs: Helm - Ivy and other completion frameworks

[practicalli-johnny]

What completion framework is most suitable for my Emacs workflow?

Review the available completion tools and their major functions

Completion related tools:

• Helm - the grandfather of them all
• ido
• Ivy - a lighter implementation of helm
• company
• vertico search and completion used in Doom Emacs - https://docs.doomemacs.org/latest/#/modules/completion
  • Vertico, which provides the vertical completion user interface
  • Consult, which provides a suite of useful commands using completing-read
  • Embark, which provides a set of minibuffer actions
  • Marginalia, which provides annotations to completion candidates
  • Orderless, which provides better filtering methods

Resources

• https://sam217pa.github.io/2016/09/13/from-helm-to-ivy/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/7vcrwo/helm_vs_ivy_what_are_the_differences_what_are_the/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/axzpu2/why_do_you_use_helm_over_ivy/
• https://writequit.org/denver-emacs/presentations/2017-04-11-ivy.html