How to use multiple backends in priority for company-mode

Question

If I do

(setq company-backends '(company-tabnine company-capf company-yasnippet))

Then company will try company-tabnine to give me completions. If tabnine fails, it will try capf. If instead I do

(setq company-backends '((company-tabnine company-capf company-yasnippet)))

Then company will yield completions from all of the backends at once, which is what I want. I think it has some internal guidelines for how to order the completions: which appear at the top. But I want completions from tabnine always to be prioritized; at the top. Any way to achieve that?

Answer 1

Try using the :separate keyword:

(setq company-backends '((company-tabnine :separate company-capf company-yasnippet)))