How can I setup company-mode to only trigger completions with TAB?
reddit / emacs

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asimpleperson123 · 2022-05-30 09:42

I have recently decided to switch to emacs, and one of the features I
wanted to have was autocomplete. I decided to use company mode, but I
have a few problems with it out of the box. I don't want company mode
to show a menu, instead I want to be able to use TAB and Shift-Tab to
be able to cycle forwards and backwards through the completion results
without having a menu appear.

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bbenne10 · 2022-05-30 11:30

I use corfu (and never paid enough attention when I had company around
in my setup) , so I'm not overly familiar with company but it looks
like maybe you could modify `company-frontends` to remove any
`tooltip-` frontends present in there, leaving any existing `preview-`
frontend (or adding a custom one, if one doesn't exist?)

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samsjj · 2022-05-30 14:05

By default — having company-mode enabled (see Initial Setup) — a
tooltip with completion candidates is shown when a user types in a few
characters.

To initiate completion manually, use the command M-x company-complete.

You could setup key bindings as shown here

http://company-mode.github.io/manual/Getting-Started.html#Getting-
Started

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asimpleperson123 · 2022-05-30 16:11

Thanks, this helped.