** What is vertico-posframe
vertico-posframe is an vertico extension, which lets vertico use posframe to show its candidate menu.
NOTE: vertico-posframe requires Emacs 26 and do not support mouse click.
** How to enable vertico-posframe
(require 'vertico-posframe) (vertico-posframe-mode 1)
** Tips
*** How to let vertico-posframe work well with vertico-multiform.
(setq vertico-multiform-commands '((consult-line posframe (vertico-posframe-poshandler . posframe-poshandler-frame-top-center) (vertico-posframe-border-width . 10) ;; NOTE: This is useful when emacs is used in both in X and ;; terminal, for posframe do not work well in terminal, so ;; vertico-buffer-mode will be used as fallback at the ;; moment. (vertico-posframe-fallback-mode . vertico-buffer-mode)) (t posframe))) (vertico-multiform-mode 1)
NOTE: vertico-posframe-mode will be activated/deactivated by vertico-multiform-mode dynamically when you add 'posframe' setting to vertico-multiform-commands, please do not enable vertico-posframe-mode globally at the moment.
*** To conditionally disable posframe
(setq vertico-multiform-commands '((consult-line (:not posframe)) (t posframe)))
*** How to show fringe to vertico-posframe
(setq vertico-posframe-parameters '((left-fringe . 8) (right-fringe . 8)))
By the way, User can set any parameters of vertico-posframe with the help of `vertico-posframe-parameters'.