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Questions and answers related to the Icicles library for Emacs

Questions and answers related to the Icicles library for Emacs: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Icicles

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Emacs: what are good tactics for navigating directories and opening files?

Last week, infuriated (again) by having to cope with different IDEs for R and Perl, neither of which I like or use enough to get really comfortable in, I decided to try Emacs. This decision was not made without a certain trepidation on my part. My…
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Making sense out of Emacs completion mode choices

There appears to be many alternative Emacs auto completion mechanisms. Without an exhaustive search, the following come to mind: ido, auto-complete, icicles, in buffer completion, minibuffer completion and standard out of the box completion. And…
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Can I use ido-completing-read instead of completing-read everywhere?

I'm a big fan of ido-mode, so much so that I would like to use it for things like describe-function or find-tag and so on, without having to write something like in "Can I get ido-mode-style completion for searching tags in Emacs?" for each…
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emacs - how to make find-file search in subdirectories

I'd like to implement something like Resharper's "Go To File" feature for Emacs. When one presses mentioned shortcut, Resharper pops a text box that accepts a wildcard string and displays an autocompletion menu that lists all files in a project that…
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emacs view open buffers as a tree

Is there any emacs mode that will give me a list of my open buffers as a tree? By tree, I mean a directory tree, where buffers are grouped together if they are visiting files that reside in the same directory. In vanilla emacs, or even icicles…
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Emacs Icicles Space

I've gotten used to , when i press M-x that whenever i type a space, it gives me a hyphen and yet I'd like to use icicles, so is there a way to change it so that whenever i type space, it gives me a hyphen?
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How do I find org-mode files with completion in Emacs?

I have a growing set of org files stored in org-directory. How can I navigate between them, preferably with interactive filtering and completion? I thought there was a way to get org-mode to produce a list of known org files for quick navigation,…
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Programatically insert text into command that normally blocks event loop

I'd like to implement a command that types the first few characters into an existing command and lets me type the rest. For example, a variant of icicle-execute-extended-command that starts with "icicle-" already entered. I have tried: keyboard…
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Emacs: how do I bind to M-s?

I want to bind (defun switch-to-next-frame () "Select the next frame on current display, and raise it." (interactive) (other-frame 1) ) to M-s in emacs? I tried: (global-unset-key "\M-s") but it doesn't work. The problem is - M-s is a…
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emacs icicles error on start

Icicles (v.22.0) installed from elpa (package-list-packages) Emacs version $ emacs --version GNU Emacs 24.0.90.1 Output on emacs start Warning (initialization): An error occurred while loading `/home/exu/.emacs.d/init.el': Symbol's function…
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emacs & icicles: auto-completion from a dictionary?

I just installed icicles with emacs, and so far I am liking it a lot. I'm not entirely sure if this is possible, but I would like to implement (or use, if it already exists) a feature in icicles that would auto-complete words from an English…
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Managing many thousand buffers in emacs

I am on a project with over ten thousand files. I would like to be able to navigate around these files easily. iswitchb mode bogs down quite badly with this many files; icicles is better in speed, but I like the UI of iswitchb. Suggestions? Stefan…
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When using Icicles in emacs, how do I get *just* the definition with a tag lookup?

In vanilla emacs, I load the TAGS file, and do a lookup of a symbol with "M-.". I go right to the definition of the symbol. When using Icicles, I get 374 hits for the same symbol. While I can in theory chip away the non-elephant slowly to find…
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telling Icicles to ignore matches when creating a file

I use Icicles for auto-completion when for example finding a file in emacs. However sometimes I need to create a file with a particular name filename.tex in a directory and the autcomplete automatically finds a file with a similar name…
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Failing to search multiple buffers in Emacs using "icicle-search-buffer" and C-RET

I am trying to use the icicle-search-file/icicle-search-buffer commands, but am having the same problem with both where C-RET seems to perform no operation on completion options once I have already entered the search context pattern. The…
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