Description of completions

[Doodler8888]

Is it possible to also see the description of completions and not just completion candidates?

[Doodler8888]

Ah, it actually shows descriptions, but not for every application that has them. At least if i use Corfu/Cape.
For instance, i see descriptions for 'git', but i don't see any for 'zellij'.

[LemonBreezes]

I have asked about how I can add annotations to this package in this bug report https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=65844GNU but have not followed up on it since. That bug was merged with this one: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=61283. I am interested in adding annotations to this package but just naively adding the annotations to the completion candidates does not work.

[panurg]

@Doodler8888 did you configure corfu in any special way for this? I tried corfu-popupinfo-mode but I did not get descriptions even for git.

It is not most practical fish feature, because if you need flag description it usually means that program has overwhelming number of switches anyway and its quicker to simply check manual, but sometimes I find it useful.

[Doodler8888]

@panurg "did you configure corfu in any special way for this?" - i don't remember doing anything. My corfu config is pretty basic.

(use-package corfu
  :ensure t
  :init
  (global-corfu-mode)
  :config
  (advice-add 'pcomplete-completions-at-point :around #'cape-wrap-silent)
  (advice-add 'pcomplete-completions-at-point :around #'cape-wrap-purify)
  (corfu-echo-mode)
  (corfu-history-mode)
  (corfu-popupinfo-mode))