Invoking “Icicles”

Question

I'm trying to get started using Icicles, but I'm wondering if ido is interfering with functionality. So far:

1. I installed Icicles from the repo and added

   (require 'icicles)
   

   to init.el.

2. I used M-x customize to turn off ido, resulting in

   '(ido-mode nil nil (ido))
   

   in the custom-set-variables section of init.el.

3. Restarted Emacs.

Now, running C-h c C-x C-f gives me the result of

C-x C-f runs the command ido-find-file

However, the EmacsWiki page on Icicles says this command should have been automatically remapped to icicle-file. There are some other functions that also don't seem to be working. By contrast, though, C-h c M-x results in

M-x runs the command icicle-execute-extended-command

How do I fix this?

Answer 1

Starting with emacs -Q and manually entering icicle-mode solved the problem, so it turned out that ido was still active despite my attempts to disable it through the customize interface.

On a newbie hunch I opened my init.el, added

(ido-mode nil)

and restarted emacs. This worked. Now C-x C-f is bound to icicle-file and other functionality seems normal.