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Questions tagged [icicles]

Icicles is a package providing many forms of enhanced completion, including sophisticated pattern matching.

Icicles is a library that enhances completion, in particular minibuffer completion. A full description is at http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Icicles .

One user's summary:

Icicles is to TAB completion what TAB completion is to typing things manually every time

Use this tag to ask Icicles questions about

  • installation and configuration
  • customizing behavior
  • debugging problems
  • extending features
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Is it possible to use both MELPA and MELPA-stable at the same time?

I use melpa-stable as an additional package repository, but one of the packages I like to use (icicles) isn't available on melpa-stable. Is there any way to configure package.el to normally use melpa-stable, but use melpa for a specific subset of…
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Does icicles offer features that Helm doesn't?

I'm an avid helm user and am reading the description for icicles. It includes things like: cycle through completion candidates that match your current input * which sounds weaker to me than seeing the entire list of matches in helm (since I'm…
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Select images in auctex with preview

If I insert an image into a latex file (via \includegraphics) auctex lets me select the file and inserts the filename. However using this dialogue, I can only choose the filename and cannot see previews of images as in file chooser dialogues of…
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How to search and replace in *open buffers*

I want to interactively search and replace in all (or, preferably, a regexp subset of) my buffers (not files). Scenario Being a pack-rat sort of guy, I never delete my buffers until I'm sure I don't need them anymore (e.g. new project), or until…
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How to display at the same time occurrences of two different words?

Thanks to helm-swoop, I know how to display occurrences of a single word. Now, I'd like to display at the same time occurrences of many different words (of a given, single buffer). Let me be specific: say, I have a buffer containing multiple…
Denis Bitouzé
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C-x C-f TAB TAB: Find file completion list: how to highlight subdirectories?

Often I'd like to open a file in a subdirectory. But poor me, I can't remember the name. So when typing C-x C-f and then TAB TAB for the completion list, the list of all files in this directory is listed, including the subdirectories, which are only…
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Does icicles works with emacs28? Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-number-of-arguments (3 . 3) 2)

I am using GNU Emacs 28.0.50 and trying to enable icicles within. The error I am having: For: (add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/lisp/icicles") (require 'icicles) error: Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-number-of-arguments (3 . 3) 2) …
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How can I search between the lines with multiline search?

I use C-u 4 M-x helm-swoop for interactive search also show several surrounding lines (this is analogous to grep -C 4). When I find the word I narrow my search interactively, for example, C-u 4 M-x helm-swoop foo bar And this is analogous to grep…
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Can emacs beautify existing tcl source code?

I'm just getting started with tcl; what sort of beautifier, or prettifier, or formatter, is there for tcl with emacs? My main interest would be to fix existing scripts so that particularly the indenting is consistent and the braces, brackets and…
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`+` in dired-mode with icicles and ido enabled raises an error

I just installed icicles. I use ido-mode for the minibuffer. In a dired buffer, when I press + (bound to dired-create-directory), here is what happens: the first time, the error icicle-restore-other-keymap-keys: Key sequence M-s M-s starts with…
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With icicle-locate-file, how can I find all *.txt files in the directory?

I need to find all *.txt files in the directory, like find ./ -iname "*txt" I wanted an Emacs solution, so I found the multi-command icicle-locate-file-other-window. Its documentation tells me to type a multi-completion pattern to match f.* C-M-j…
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How to resolve key-binding conflict between Icicles and `super-save-mode`?

I noticed that if Icicles is loaded then super-save-mode doesn't save a buffer when you switch to another buffer, though switching frames works. Icicles seems so technically advanced, yet there is no bug tracker on the internet. All info sits on a…
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icicles search and replace; need help to do a successfull replace

I try to use Icicles to search and replace. I understand to search with it (some details, that I need), but I'm unable to do a replace. The link below shows a recipe, that I try to follow, but it doesn't seem to work. Question on stackoverflow Here…
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icicles: Package yow is obsolete

GNU Emacs 26.3 I updated all the packages and started to face with following error, I am not sure what is causing it, it wasn't happening before the update: ./icicles/icicles-cmd1.el :512:(eval-when-compile (require 'yow nil t)) ;; (no error if not…
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icicles: How set set Ctrl+p for [up] and Ctrl+n for [down]

In the minibuffer for Icicles when I press C-p or C-n the minibuffer says beginning of the buffer, end of the buffer respectively. Instead want to move around the found candidate using C-p and C-n instead of using arrow keys [up], [down]. I want to…
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