Really easy vscode-like autocompletion in emacs?

I'm a total beginner, I can't figure out lsp-mode or company or that stuff, in vs-code I just click a button, is there something similar in emacs?

https://emacs-lsp.github.io/lsp-mode/tutorials/CPP-guide/ I followed this tutorial. There are similar ones for other languages. I don't think there is a one click solution other than copy pasting from someone else's init files. I was in a similar position as you not too long ago. I didn't know enough about emacs or elisp to follow these tutorials. I continued using vscode and slowly learned about emacs and elisp. Even after I started switching to emacs, I still had vscode around as backup. Eventually I uninstalled vscode completely and never looked back since. I kept adding more features to my emacs setup so its now far more powerful and optimized for my workflows that vscode ever was.

As someone who likes both emacs and vscode I don't think you're ever going to find something with as easy an out-of-the-box setup as vscode. You're going to have to work a lot to get similar functionality in emacs even with things like company and lsp-mode. It might be worth the effort, but you'll need to be willing to put in the time. Otherwise I would stick with vscode. As a long time emacs user, I'm finding myself using vscode for everything more and more, and using emacs for special case editing, like org-mode and macros, etc.

That's unfortunate

eglot and language servers are my go-to for autocomplete and the like. I'd say it's fairly pain free. DM if you want any advice or help setting that up.

First of all, you're on exactly the right path to get the autocompletion you're thinking of. I use lsp-mode and company every day for exactly this, and without a lot of configuration required. You'll also find additional features you might want in the lsp-ui and lsp-treemacs packages. Now, for total beginners I highly recommend using a framework like [Spacemacs](https://www.spacemacs.org/) (my preference) or [Doom](https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs). Both of these come with a ton of useful packages, including both lsp-mode and company, and have lots of beginner-friendly documentation. While you're not going to have a "just click a button" experience in Emacs, frameworks like these let you just set a variable to true, which is just about as easy.

> You're going to have to work a lot to get similar functionality in emacs even with things like company and lsp-mode. I don't use LSP (yet?). Does this statement mean that the instructions for installing and configuring lsp-mode or eglot don't actually work? Or when you said "work a lot" did you just mean "follow the instructions"?

It is pretty easy to get things working in emacs ; besides - these things break easily in vs code .. and when things don’t work it is much easier in eMacs to fix it .

How much is *a lot*? And did you configure your setup without looking at the README for the respective packages? (who doesn't like a challenge) Personally, I enabled `corfu` and `eglot` following the instructions and it *just* worked. Optimizations I brought later on