company-yasnippet doesn't play nice with other completion backends

[sethen]

The only way I can get company-yansippet to play nicely is like so:

(set (make-local-variable 'company-backends) '((:separate company-yasnippet company-capf) company-keywords)))

If I turn the code to something like this:

(set (make-local-variable 'company-backends) '(company-yasnippet company-capf company-keywords))

It will only complete the snippets and not move on to the company-capf backend... it won't even show those completions. What's going on here? How can I get all of these backends to play nice with each other and show all completions at once?

[dgutov]

To use several backends together, instead of "first one which can take responsibility", you need to group them.

In the example above, it means

(set (make-local-variable 'company-backends) '((company-yasnippet company-capf company-keywords)))

[dgutov]

I actually don't understand how you got that result on the screenshot #1. Shouldn't you get only yasnippet snippets instead?

[dgutov]

But if you add the keyword :separate to the group, it will keep the sorting order as returned by the backends.

[sethen]

I don't understand really either lol -- disabling orderless gave me exactly what I wanted tho

[sethen]

@dgutov Actually upon further inspection trying to use multiple company backends together is not working for me at all in regards to sorting. No matter what I try I get one dominant completion backend and nothing else. This has nothing to do with orderless like I thought.

[dgutov]

Try

(setq-local company-backends '((:separate company-capf company-yasnippet company-keywords)))

It will keep the sorting order for completions coming from every backend, and keep them in the order that the backends are specified in, too.