Orderless (Emacs package)
Shares rank 13 of 24 Emacs packages by recommenders
An Emacs completion style that matches candidates in any order, helping people find commands and stuff in M-x alongside completion packages like vertico.
An Emacs completion style that matches candidates in any order, helping people find commands and stuff in M-x alongside completion packages like vertico.
9 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 9
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 6 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 9 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 6 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Matches candidates in any order
“Emacs' M-x can be customized in lots of ways i.e. Orderless and prescient.el matching”
Comment from 19 Feb 2026 in “ShannonMax: A Library to Optimize Emacs Keybindings with Information Theory” “orderless fuzzy match for candidates”
Comment from 1 Nov 2025 in “Ask HN: Where to begin with "modern" Emacs?” Helps command discovery in M-x
“with a few other plugins (Orderless), the frequently used commands bubble to the top of the list”
Comment from 10 Mar 2026 in “Two Years of Emacs Solo: 35 Modules, Zero External Packages, and a Full Refactor” “man does vertico, consult, orderless and marginalia help with discovery”
Comment from 29 Oct 2026 in “Emacs Turns 50” Works well with vertico
“Having a good completion package (e.g. `vertico` + `unordered`) goes a long way to finding stuff.”
Comment from 18 Jun 2026 in “Emacs, how it all started (for me)” “man does vertico, consult, orderless and marginalia help with discovery”
Comment from 29 Oct 2026 in “Emacs Turns 50”
Other Emacs packages people recommend
The four most recommended other Emacs packages, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evil mode for Emacs | 39 | 7 | 85% | 11 | — | Approved |
| agent-shell | 25 | 6 | 81% | 11 | — | Approved |
| TRAMP for Emacs | 25 | 10 | 71% | 8 | — | Approved |
| gptel | 20 | 1 | 95% | 12 | — | Approved |
| Orderless (Emacs package)This page | 9 | 0 | 100% | 6 | — | — |
What people said
7 of the 9 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“man does vertico, consult, orderless and marginalia help with discovery”
“Having a good completion package (e.g. `vertico` + `unordered`) goes a long way to finding stuff.”
“demonstrates powerful completion workflows that use daily in Emacs”
“with a few other plugins (Orderless), the frequently used commands bubble to the top of the list”
“Emacs' M-x can be customized in lots of ways i.e. Orderless and prescient.el matching”
“orderless fuzzy match for candidates”
“they each add up to a brilliant emacs experience”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.