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31.0.50; Feature request: multi-category support in `icomplete-fido-kill'.

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From: Fernando de Morais <fernandodemorais.jf <at> gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 72210 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#72210: 31.0.50; Feature request: multi-category support in `icomplete-fido-kill'.
Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2024 13:23:19 -0300

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Hello Stefan,

Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> `icomplete-fido-kill' works very well, but cannot handle the deletion of
>> files or killing buffers when they are behind a multi-category
>> ``situation''.  Add this would be useful for those of us that combine
>> `icomplete' with, e.g., `consult-buffer'.
>
> Can you provide a recipe?  I'm not sufficiently familiar with that code
> to really understand the problem you're facing.

Sure!

Please, install the `consult' package and, in an emacs -Q session,
evaluate the following:

#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(progn
  (package-initialize)
  (load-library "consult")
  (icomplete-vertical-mode t)
  (keymap-set icomplete-minibuffer-map "C-k" 'icomplete-fido-kill))
#+end_src

- Then, ``M-x consult-buffer'';
- Type *M (this should turn the `*Messages*' buffer the current
  candidate);
- Then ``C-k''

The following message should appear in the minibuffer:

[Sorry, don’t know how to kill things for ‘multi-category’]

The same happens when we try to use `icomplete-fido-kill' in files
listed by `consult-buffer'.

The expected result would be for `icomplete-fido-kill' to work normally,
killing the buffer, even though it is listed by `consult-buffer'.

>> What follows is just the ``hacky'' approach that's currently being used
>> in my init:
>
> Any chance you can make it a patch against `icomplete.el`?

Follows attached!  This is my first patch, so I might have made
mistakes, but I'm here to adjust whatever you deem necessary.

-- 
Regards,
Fernando de Morais.

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