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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?

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    Try starting from emacs -Q and loading Icicles. If C-x C-f is bound to ido-find-file then you clearly have not removed Ido from the equation. And maybe try using the Customize UI, instead of fiddling with code in your init file. – Drew Nov 6 '14 at 21:57
  • And I don't think you found anything in the Icicles doc (including on Emacs Wiki) about ido-find-file being remapped to icicle-file. – Drew Nov 6 '14 at 21:59
  • This is the Icicles doc page that speaks about Ido. – Drew Nov 6 '14 at 22:02
  • And this is the Icicles doc page about Icomplete (icomplete-mode), if you want some Ido-like behavior with Icicles. – Drew Nov 6 '14 at 22:24
  • I restarted with emacs -Q and turned on icy-mode and found that C-x C-f was now bound to icicle-file so I guess ido is still somehow not fully disabled, as you suspected. Here's the page I was referencing, which contains this: "...command find-file, is by default remapped in Icicle mode to multi-command icicle-file. Remapping means that any keys, such as C-x C-f, that would normally be bound to find-file are instead bound to icicle-file when you are in Icicle mode." – Steven Arntson Nov 7 '14 at 3:34
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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.

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  • That sounds right. The best way to turn off something like Ido (or Icicles) is to use its mode command: ido-mode for Ido, icicle-mode for Icicles. – Drew Nov 7 '14 at 4:18

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