From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Jeff Weiss'" <jweiss@redhat.com>, <jeffrey.m.weiss@gmail.com>,
<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: migrating from ido to icicles
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 14:30:46 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <EB0C013EA306426D9B5A471CDD427577@us.oracle.com> (raw)
> >> "M-SPC runs the command icicle-prefix-word-complete, which is an
> >> interactive compiled Lisp function in `icicles-mcmd.el'."
>
> I was able to successfully bind M-SPC to
> icicle-prefix-word-complete by
> customizing icicle-word-completion-keys.
It is already bound to M-SPC, as you indicated above.
Perhaps you meant M-TAB.
> However the docs for icicle-word-completion-keys suggest that
> I can also bind SPC if I wanted. That actually sounds better
> because I can't remember the last time I tried to complete a
> filename with a space in it.
I don't recommend that, but you are welcome to do it. Icicles completion works
for all kinds of things, many of which contain space chars.
The point of binding SPC to self-insertion is to, well, make it easy to insert a
space, rather than having to use `C-q SPC'. Likewise, for `?' and `C-j'
(newline).
> But no matter what I put in that field, SPC wouldn't trigger
> icicle-prefix-word-complete, it was still bound to icicle-self-insert.
You need to do three things:
1. What you did: add the SPC binding for `icicle-word-completion-keys'/
2. Remove the SPC binding to `icicle-self-insert' from option
`icicle-completion-key-bindings'.
3. Toggle Icicle mode twice (exit and re-enter): M-x icy-mode M-x icy-mode. (Or
restart Emacs.)
Vanilla Emacs binds SPC to prefix word completion. Icicles binds it, in the
default value of `icicle-completion-key-bindings', to self-insertion insertion.
Likewise, `?' and `C-j'.
As I said, Icicles is used for completing lots of things besides just commands
and file names, and it generally makes sense to have ` ', `?', and `C-j' be
self-inserting. But you can easily customize this away.
> There's one other odd behavior I've been noticing. Even though I have
> icicle-expand-input-to-common-match-flag
That option name should be without the `-flag'. Long ago the option was a
Boolean and its name had the suffix `-flag'. Since you mention a value of `1'
you clearly do not have an older version of Icicles where the option had that
former name.
> set to 1 (only expand when
> using tab or s-tab), I am finding that I do get input inserted for me
> as I'm trying to type, and it ends up mixing my input with its own,
> resulting in bad input in the minibuffer.
>
> For example, if the directory I'm completing in has 3 files, fop fob bar
> if I quickly type 'fo' what appears in the minibuffer is
> 'foo'.
>
> I think that's because it's trying to expand the common match, since all the
> files that have 'f' also have 'fo'.
That is not what Icicles calls expansion to the common match. It is what
Icicles calls incremental completion.
This explains common-match expansion:
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Icicles_-_Expanded-Common-Match_Completion.
This explains incremental completion:
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Icicles_-_Icompletion
You can cycle/toggle either of these during completion, to see the differences.
See the doc strings of `icicle-expand-input-to-common-match' and
`icicle-incremental-completion'.
HTH.
next reply other threads:[~2012-12-20 22:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-20 22:30 Drew Adams [this message]
2012-12-21 3:53 ` migrating from ido to icicles Jeff Weiss
2012-12-21 18:31 ` Drew Adams
2012-12-21 14:41 ` Jeff Weiss
2012-12-21 18:32 ` Drew Adams
2012-12-21 19:06 ` Jeff Weiss
2012-12-21 19:12 ` Drew Adams
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-12-19 19:11 jeffrey.m.weiss
2012-12-19 22:41 ` Drew Adams
2012-12-20 14:51 ` Jeff Weiss
2012-12-20 15:45 ` Drew Adams
2012-12-20 21:11 ` Jeff Weiss
[not found] ` <mailman.15718.1355956885.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-12-20 12:31 ` Michael Heerdegen
2012-12-21 0:10 ` Drew Adams
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