Merge suggestions over dictionaries

[ahttraga]

I use multiple dictionaries and vertico, and often the suggestion results are buried at the bottom if I am not in the first jinx-language dictionary. I just learned about vertico-next-group from another discussion, and this already helps to quickly access suggestions from the right dictionary.

However, I was wondering if there is a way to sort the suggestions by closest match, independent of dictionary? Is this possible with vertico-sort-function or sort override function? Looking through the source code, I have the impression jinx is hardwired to group suggestions by dictionary.

If suggestions are not grouped, one could still indicate the dictionary/enchant source for each suggestion with a marginalia type annotation.

[minad]

I don't think this would work well, since Jinx doesn't have much knowledge of word distance. The ordering comes from the dictionary backend.

[ahttraga]

Thanks for making that clear. I'll just make a merged dictionary for enchant to use, following Use multi language dictionary with aspell.

[ahttraga]

Another strategy would be to configure the suggestions display to show each group, corresponding to a different language, in a different column. Is this possible with vertico?

[minad]

That's an interesting idea. It is not supported by Vertico, but could maybe be part of vertico-grid-mode. On the other hand I am not sure how useful this feature is in other contexts beside Jinx. So we would add a complication which might not be of much use elsewhere.