Inserting dash with SPC

[rnkn]

Hello and thank you for creating vertico. Previously I'd tried a few other minibuffer completion modes but nothing ever felt right. You've put an incredible amount of care and attention into vertico so it just feels right. Your work is much appreciated.

Over the years, I've grown very accustomed to inserting "-" (dash) in the minbuffer with the spacebar. This is the default if you're just using regular Emacs completing-read with no minibuffer completion modes.

I'd like to submit a PR that adds an option to retain this behaviour if that's something you're interested in? If so, would you like this as just a defcustom? To achieve this I'd just make SPC call a command vertico-self-insert-space that either calls (insert ?-) or self-insert-command depending on the value of the option.

[rnkn]

p.s. I meant to say, I discovered your mode via https://www.manueluberti.eu//emacs/2021/04/12/vertico/

[minad]

Thanks for the kind words.

I'd like to submit a PR that adds an option to retain this behaviour if that's something you're interested in?

I want to keep the current behavior and don't want to offer an alternative. It is easy enough to achieve the desired behavior with some small adjustments to the user configuration. You can write your own command and bind it to vertico-map. Alternatively, a small configuration adjustment seems to do it:

(define-key vertico-map " " #'minibuffer-complete-word)
(setq completion-styles '(basic))

Note that vertico is compatible with default completion. You can use all the normal minibuffer-complete-*, minibuffer-force-complete-* commands. I hope this helps!

[minad]

p.s. I meant to say, I discovered your mode via https://www.manueluberti.eu//emacs/2021/04/12/vertico/

@manuel-uberti will be happy to hear this! :)

[manuel-uberti]

Oh yes, I am always happy when I write something useful to others. Thank you @rnkn!

[rnkn]

Alternatively, a small configuration adjustment seems to do it: ...

This is much cleaner/easier than what I had. Thanks!