Re: Use ido for *all* completion?

[Oliver Scholz]

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"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
>
>     > Is there a way to use ido's magical completion for everything?  For
>     > example, I'd like it to complete when answering the prompt M-x gives.
>     >
>     > CVS Emacs finally broke lightning completion[1] for me so I
>     decided to look
>     > at ido.  I like it!  You can configure Lightning completion so that it
>     > completes for all minibuffer prompts.  It would be great if
>     ido did that
>     > too.  Can it?
>
>     I don't think that ido can do this (yet I don't /know/ either that it
>     can not.) However, there's M-x icomplete-mode

> AFAIK, you can use `ido-completing-read' as a general replacement for
> `completing-read'.

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> CCing ido's author, in case he has an idea about this. - Drew

Excuse me, did you actually take the time to try M-x icomplete-mode?

    Oliver
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