is it possible to define helm-company as the default completion method?

[vxe]

aka no more menus, only helm list for whenever company is invoked?

[Sodel-the-Vociferous]

I looked into this a while ago. Helm-Company is not coded in the same way that Company's "official" frontends are. I'm sure it would be possible to refactor Helm-Company into a proper Company frontend, but it'd take a huge effort.

[cyruseuros]

@Sodel-the-Vociferous is probably right. That being said, I'm a lazy fuck, and this works:

(use-package company
  :config (setq company-frontends nil)
  :hook (after-init . global-company-mode))
(use-package helm-company
  :general (general-def
             :keymaps '(company-mode-map company-active-map)
             "<tab>" #'helm-company
             "TAB" #'helm-company))

[Sodel-the-Vociferous]

See #17 if needed, but helm-company can directly be bound to <Tab>, or any other key. Please comment if helm-company needs to be improved for interactive use.