Re: vertical fido-mode

[Basil L. Contovounesios]

Protesilaos Stavrou <public@protesilaos.com> writes:

> Ergus <spacibba@aol.com> [2020-06-11, 15:40 +0200]:
>
>> If we want some of the ivy functionalities in icomplete should we contact
>> the ivy maintainer for contribution? 
>
> For the sake of completeness, Omar Antolín Camarena already develops
> packages that extend Icomplete in ways that make it more Ivy-like.
>
> * 'orderless' pattern matching :: Completion style that offers
>   out-of-order matches, while also supporting multiple methods (regexp,
>   flex, string, initials).[0]
>
> * 'embark' contextual custom actions :: Minibuffer commands that act on
>   the current candidate or the entire list of candidates.  These are
>   implemented as keymaps.[1]
>
> [0]: https://github.com/oantolin/orderless
> [1]: https://github.com/oantolin/embark

And for even more complete completeness: in general Ivy does its own
thing rather than trying to reuse core completion tools, so its
desirable features can be copied without necessarily needing to import
much, if any, code.

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Basil