Re: struggling with icomplete, trying to terminate matching process

[Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>]

> This situation is when I wish to *not* choose one of the matches given
> to me.  For example, if I'm in a directory which has two files, "one"
> and "two".  If I wish to create a new sub-directory (or file, I guess)
> called "o", I am unable to do so because icomplete insists of choosing
> "one".
>
> Is there a magical incantation within icomplete that will return the
> partial string I may have typed or one which will turn off icomplete?  I
> found nothing with C-h b while in the mini-buffer and the icomplete
> section in the Emacs info manual also mentions nothing.

Your question is incomplete, because in my tests it "just works":

    src/emacs -Q -f icomplete-mode
    C-x C-f R

shows me ".../R[EADME]"

    RET

opens the (not yet existing) "R" file.


        Stefan