corfu
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
4recommend
1warn against
Nov 1, 2025first mention
Oct 28, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I switched to Eglot/Corfu/Vertico/Tempel. I much prefer the new wave.”
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“I use corfu, which gives me nice inline popups.”
“corfu+marginalia+vertico+embark+orderless is the standard completion stack now”
Caveats and dissent
“I tried corfu and completion-preview several times but didn’t get something I’m happy with from it.”
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Also written as Corfu. Data: corfu.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 6
“I switched to Eglot/Corfu/Vertico/Tempel. I much prefer the new wave.”
“I use corfu, eglot, and vertico now.”
“I tried corfu and completion-preview several times but didn’t get something I’m happy with from it.”
“I use corfu, which gives me nice inline popups.”
“project.el, eglot, LSP things, helm, corfu, vterm, flycheck”
“corfu+marginalia+vertico+embark+orderless is the standard completion stack now”