Use a different sort strategy per command

[jotare]

Hi, I recently switched to vertico and I was wondering if it is possible to use a different sort function per command.

As an example, I'd like to use a different sort function for M-x and find-file completions. I want to sort commands using history-alpha but sort files alphabetically (not by history).

Thanks!

[minad]

https://github.com/minad/vertico?tab=readme-ov-file#configure-vertico-per-command-or-completion-category

[jotare]

Oh, sorry for the dumb question 🤦 I didn't fully understand how that worked when I first read it...

Something like this works for me:

(setq vertico-multiform-commands
  '((find-file (vertico-sort-function . vertico-sort-alpha))
     (execute-extended-command (vertico-sort-function . vertico-sort-history-alpha))
     (t (vertico-sort-function . vertico-sort-history-length-alpha))))

It keeps being a bit unclear for me which are the available categories you can configure with vertico-multiform-categories, not sure if it's explained somewhere. Anyway, feel free to close the discussion.

Thanks for your time!