From: Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com>
To: ben lamothe <zonotope@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Recovering org-completion-use-ido functionality
Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2018 16:42:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877ek2lh9x.fsf@yandex.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEwsFJGoBqmXM5MrA0bng5OLSdWZq_cRDnp+6r=FrNdyWwAw=A@mail.gmail.com> (ben lamothe's message of "Sat, 25 Aug 2018 09:01:07 -0400")
>>>>> ben lamothe <zonotope@gmail.com> writes:
> I've been able to implement the functionality I wanted using a
> buffer-local variable in an org-mode hook:
>>
>> (defun bl/completion-use-ido () "Set the current buffer's
>> completing read engine to IDO." (setq-local
>> completing-read-function #'ido-completing-read))
> (add-hook 'org-mode-hook 'bl/completion-use-ido)
> I think that works for me, but I'm open to a better suggestion if
> there is one. In any case, I think re-enabling the functionality
> that was removed with the "org-completion-use-ido" function should
> be documented somewhere.
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 9:46 PM ben lamothe <zonotope@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi. I see from the org-mode 9.0 changelog
>> <https://orgmode.org/Changes_old.html> that the
>> "org-completion-use-ido" option was removed:
>>
>>> *Remove all options related to ido or iswitchb* This includes
>>> org-completion-use-iswitchb and org-completion-use-ido. Instead
>>> Org uses regular functions, e.g., completion-read so as to let
>>> those libraries operate.
>>
>>
>> However, I'm unclear from the changelog and I haven't found any
>> other documentation about how to restore the functionality that
>> this option used to enable. I have tried
>> ido-completing-read-plus/ido-ubiquitous
>> <https://github.com/DarwinAwardWinner/ido-completing-read-plus>,
>> but that is overkill because it tries to enable ido everywhere,
>> but I just want to re-enable ido for org-mode completion (mainly
>> refile). I also run into the same problem if I try to set the
>> completing read function to the one from ido globally.
>>
>> What is the best way to restore the functionality of the now
>> removed "org-completion-use-ido" option?
>>
I've now found `ido-completing-read-plus' to supply what I need. It's at
https://github.com/DarwinAwardWinner/ido-completing-read-plus
Best wishes,
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-03 15:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-25 1:46 Recovering org-completion-use-ido functionality ben lamothe
2018-08-25 13:01 ` ben lamothe
2018-09-03 14:13 ` Colin Baxter
2018-09-03 15:42 ` Colin Baxter [this message]
2018-09-04 12:09 ` ben lamothe
2018-09-04 15:20 ` Colin Baxter
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