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by fenazego 55 days ago
I missed your original VOMPECCC submission. Thanks for the write-up.

Although I've been a daily Emacs user for +25 years, I've only occasionally invested time in tweaking ICR (messing with the basic editor stuff you use hundreds of times a day can really get in the way of getting things done), and the sheer number of packages and sub-packages in the ICR space meant I only had a hazy idea of how they all related and (are they complementary, alternatives, successors?). Your VOMPECCC blogpost does a terrific job clarifying that!

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Emacs for 25+ years is admirable! Question for you - did you ever use Icicles? I'm going to add that to the history section in the previous post that discussed the history of completion in Emacs and how we got to VOMPECCC.

The author of Embark (the E in VOMPECCC) reached out yesterday mentioning that Icicles would be a good addition, and like me, he and his fellow VOMPECCC package authors hadn't used it before. I think we all started using emacs when helm was already an option. I know Icicles was more popular years ago pre-helm and pre-ivy, and it would be great to hear a little blurb about your experience with it if you ever used it!

I haven't used icicles either. For most of the time I used ido, and at some point I switched to ivy.