Re: Recovering org-completion-use-ido functionality

[Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com>]

Dear Ben
>>>>> ben lamothe <zonotope@gmail.com> writes:

    > Thanks for the suggestion. I did try out
    > `ido-completing-read-plus`, but it's too aggressive for me. It
    > tries to enable ido *everywhere*, including the interface for
    > `M-x`. I just want to enable it for org-mode specific
    > completions. Basically, I want replicate exactly the functionality
    > that was removed with the `org-completion-use-ido` option.

    > Incidentally, the buffer-local variable is also too
    > aggressive. Now, when I try to enter a command with `M-x`, that
    > interface tries to use IDO for completing reads, and IDO can't
    > handle it so it fails. That means I'm back at the drawing board,
    > and my previous solution doesn't actually work for me.

    > Does anyone know how I replicate the functionality that was
    > removed with `org-completion-use-ido`?

Sorry to hear of your ido-completing-read-plus experience. The only
other suggestion I have is to use icomplete, which predates ido. Emacs
has it installed so all you need do is

(require 'icomplete)
(icomplete-mode 1)


It might be worth a try.

Best wishes,