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corfu

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for corfu.

Editorial note

Completion preview mode is not quite a replacement for corfu, but it's pretty darn good and only going to get better.

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Quick take

The capital of Corfu.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of corfu gathered in one view.

noun

The capital of Corfu.

noun

An island of Greece, one of the Ionian Islands. The ancient name is Corcyra (Κόρκῡρα (Kórkūra), more often Κέρκῡρα (Kérkūra)), in Modern Greek Kérkira (Κέρκυρα (Kérkyra)).

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for corfu.

noun

The capital of Corfu.

noun

An island of Greece, one of the Ionian Islands. The ancient name is Corcyra (Κόρκῡρα (Kórkūra), more often Κέρκῡρα (Kérkūra)), in Modern Greek Kérkira (Κέρκυρα (Kérkyra)).

Example sentences

1

Completion preview mode is not quite a replacement for corfu, but it's pretty darn good and only going to get better.

2

Something that explicitly aspires to feature-parity with a modern-emacs stack (vertico/corfu/marginalia/transient/tramp), but which sacrifices some aspect of the platform's flexibility (eg.

3

Even 'Prince Philip of Greece', husband of QE II, was a Prince of Greece, born in recently-British Corfu (who hasn't invaded Corfu?), without a single drop of Greek blood.

4

North South, East and west, from Crete to Thessaloniki, and from Corfu to Skiathos.

5

They did tourist day trips from Corfu to raise some hard currency.

6

To begin, I'll say I posted this from my bedroom in my hometown, Corfu (Greece).

7

My bad, so Corfu is in the category of Company mode.

8

Am I missing out too much by not checking out Vertico, Embark, Corfu and friends?

9

I use a combination of vertico, orderless and corfu.

10

Currently I’m using add on packages vertigo, orderless, marginalia, consult, embark, and corfu to handle completion.

11

Yes, on the particular issue of company/corfu, I'm actually tempted to see if we can't just specify that the work of `completion-at-point-functions` must be done in an external process.

12

I assume the esrog is the primeval citron but I've noticed that Jewish tradition (which rejects the use of hybrid citrons) allows some surprisingly different citrons in practice, popularly associated with Israel, Morocco, Yemen, Corfu etc.

Quote examples

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I would have thought that lots of folks had watched the "The Durrells in Corfu" TV series (PBS Masterpiece Theatre) and then did some research on the family.

Proper noun examples

1

According to Karl Küchler, what did Empress Elizabeth of Austria's favorite sculpture depict, which was made for her villa Achilleion at Corfu?

2

It’s pretty cool how Emacs is tossing in this slick, built-in predictive typing thing—kinda like Company or Corfu, but using its own minibuffer magic.

3

Vertico, Consult, Corfu, etc.) seem to be accepted as the de-facto best replacements for older packages like Helm, Ivy, etc.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use corfu in a sentence?

Completion preview mode is not quite a replacement for corfu, but it's pretty darn good and only going to get better.

What does corfu mean?

The capital of Corfu.

What part of speech is corfu?

corfu is commonly used as noun.