Abbrev proxy candidates in emacs icicles

Question

I'm trying to use icicle-command-abbrev to reduce the amount of typing that I do. I have proxy candidates enabled (setq icicle-add-proxy-candidates-flag t), (I can also enable them with C-M-_ but, for some reason, I can never get ff to match find-file. Sorting is set to proxy coandidates first, and I have proxy candidates with a higher precedence than regular commands. What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

You don't really say what behavior you see, corresponding to "I can never get ff to match find-file." Let me tell you what behavior you should see, and then you can please tell me what the difference is.

From your description, you should see proxy candidates in *Completions*. When you use icicle-command-abbrev (bound to C-x SPC by default) and then you type ff TAB at the M-x prompt, you should see command names that have at least two parts that start with f, and you should see the proxy candidate ff, which should be highlighted (with face icicle-proxy-candidate). That proxy candidate should be the first candidate listed in *Completions* (because you have sorted proxy candidates first).

If you then cycle to that candidate (just hit TAB a second time, or the down arrow once), and then hit RET to choose it, the prompt should change to Command abbreviatedff:. If you then hit TAB you should see in *Completions* the list of commands whose names have at least two parts that start with f. You can then cycle to one or type more text to complete to one, to choose it.

Let me know which part of this description you do not see.

However, I just realized that there was a bug (a missing variable binding), which I have now fixed. The symptom would be that when you choose command find-file a missing-variable-binding error was raised. Please download the latest icicles-cmd1.el, which has the fix. (Or wait until the file is mirrored on MELPA, which could take up to a day.)

If what you see other than that bug is what I described, then you should be OK with the new version. If not, please describe what you see that is different from my description. Sorry for your trouble.

(You can of course just hit RET as soon as you type ff, to get the second completion prompt directly. But first check that the recipe above works for you.)