How to determine the number of completion candidates? about vertico HOT 5 CLOSED

Now I noticed this comment after posting my issue :)

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Is my convoluted setup workable with vertico, or should I stick with selectrum?

There is nothing wrong with sticking too Selectrum. Depends on your preferences. The READMEs describe the differences between the packages. The special setup of yours should not be a roadblock for either of the UIs.

To make that happen I need to know how many completion candidates there are, so I can adjust the height when there are fewer than X candidates or reduce it to 1 line when I'm seeing a read-string or y-or-n-p call.

You can try to advise vertico--resize-window, which receives the number of displayed lines. Does this help?

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There is nothing wrong with sticking too Selectrum.

There isn't, but this completion & minibuffer eco-system that's shot up recently is certainly worth exploring. I've been sticking with helm since the very beginning, so this more minimalist building blocks approach is quite a novel experience for me since I get to learn about all the small details (like completion-styles) I've never been exposed to until now.

You can try to advise vertico--resize-window, which receives the number of displayed lines. Does this help?

Unfortunately it does not. Selectrum it is then. I'll go play around with orderless and embark now 🤷 .

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so this more minimalist building blocks approach is quite a novel experience for me since I get to learn about all the small details (like completion-styles) I've never been exposed to until now.

Yes, that's the same for me. I understand much better how everything works under the hood. I also think it is easier to understand components separately step by step.

Unfortunately it does not. Selectrum it is then. I'll go play around with orderless and embark now.

Of course. That's the point that you can replace components a bit more freely :)

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Okay, so I tested this a little bit more and figured out a few more things: mini-popup cannot work with EXWM since it uses child frames. mini-frame works around with a "standalone mode". I don't think my simplistic approach can scale to such a standalone mode since then the child frame should really get the focus. But in the simple setup I am using, mini-popup seems to work well :)

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