Vertico
Minimalistic vertical completion UI for the Emacs minibuffer.
Recommended as a core piece of the modern Emacs completion stack, used alongside Orderless, Consult, Marginalia and Embark,1234 and as a replacement for Helm.56 No complaints came up in these mentions;78 it suits Emacs users building their own configuration or using Spacemacs layers.91011
Why people recommend it
Composable stack · 3
Pairs with Orderless, Consult, Marginalia and Embark in what one commenter calls the standard completion stack.
“corfu+marginalia+vertico+embark+orderless is the standard completion stack now”
“which is a composition of consult, orderless, vertico, and embark.”
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“I no longer use Helm (I'm doing Vertico/Orderless/Consult)”
Helm replacement · 2
Long-time Helm users switched to Vertico and prefer the newer packages.
“I switched to Eglot/Corfu/Vertico/Tempel. I much prefer the new wave.”
“I no longer use Helm (I'm doing Vertico/Orderless/Consult)”
Must-have · 1
One commenter considers it essential even as their package list shrinks.
“Vertico feels like a must-have to me these days.”
Emacs-native design · 1
Cited as an example of packages that hook into Emacs internals instead of building their own architecture.
“Vertico/Counsel/Orderless is very nice”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
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Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- Emacs Turns 50 3 mentions
- Ask HN: Where to begin with "modern" Emacs? 2 mentions
- Emacs 31 Is Around the Corner: The Changes I'm Daily Driving 1 mention
Data: vertico.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.”
“Vertico/Counsel/Orderless is very nice”
“I no longer use Helm (I'm doing Vertico/Orderless/Consult)”
“Vertico feels like a must-have to me these days.”
“corfu+marginalia+vertico+embark+orderless is the standard completion stack now”
“which is a composition of consult, orderless, vertico, and embark.”