Re: is it possible to choose a completion engine?

[Ihor Radchenko]

webdev@toryanderson.com (Tory S. Anderson) writes:

> Org currently stands out from my workflow because it does completions its own 
> way, with lists and number/letter keys. It would be nice if I could instead 
> have the benefit of vertico, or helm, or whatever else instead. Org would 
> even benefit from marginalia and embark in some cases. Is there an easy 
> variable I'm missing to make org use completing-reads instead of the indexing 
> thing it does?

This is because you customized your tags/todo keywords to have a quick
key binding to set. By default, Org uses custom "fast" interface for
completion in such cases. You can either remove the bindings to
explicitly set `org-use-fast-tag-selection' and/or
`org-use-fast-todo-selection' to nil.

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