Failing to search multiple buffers in Emacs using "icicle-search-buffer" and C-RET

Question

I am trying to use the icicle-search-file/icicle-search-buffer commands, but am having the same problem with both where C-RET seems to perform no operation on completion options once I have already entered the search context pattern.

The operations described are using Emacs 24.3.1 on Ubuntu 13.10 with icicles, workgroups2, and some custom key bindings all done with H-_ or C-c _ to avoid conflicts. I have icicles and workgroups2 set to be on at start in my .emacs file. I don’t have anything custom bound to C-c `.

I have learned to use icicle-search (C-c `) with progressive completion (S-SPC) and it works well, which is why I wanted to figure out these commands. I have called the icicle-search-buffer command with each of these options just to be sure there is no difference, and the result are the same:

• C-9 C-c `

• M-s M-s b

• M-x icicle-search-buffer RET

I enter the search regex (.* RET - to make things simple) just as with icicle-search, and am then prompted for the buffers to search. I move through the completion options with arrow keys and use C-RET on the buffers I want to search. The result of this is the buffer I chose disappearing from the completion list and no obvious result appearing. Hitting RET at any point just searches the buffer I had active before beginning the search, just as if I had used C-c `. It does not search the currently selected buffer in the completions list.

Does anyone see where I am failing to understand the usage of these commands? I have read through the information on the Icicles - Search Commands, Overview page.

The "Search Multiple Buffers, Files, and Bookmarks" section seems to describe this simply, but beyond using C-RET not much is said that suggests to me where my problem is.

I also followed the link in that section to the Icicles - Multi-Commands page which was helpful in seeing how icicles modifies vanilla Emacs commands and how multi-commands work in general, but I could not determine from that where my mistake is.

Answer 1

You were doing nothing wrong. (And your description of using Icicles search is a good one.) I introduced a bug recently.

Should be OK now. Please download the latest version of icicles-mac.el. Or wait (up to a day) for it to be mirrored on MELPA and download it from there. Sorry for your trouble, and thanks for bringing this to my attention.

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IMPORTANT:

If you byte-compile Icicles (recommended), then whenever (as now) icicles-mac.el is updated, you must load icicles-mac.el (not just icicles-mac.elc), then compile it, then *recompile ALL***of the other **Icicles source files as well. You want to make sure that all byte-compiled files are up-to-date.

This is normal for Lisp. Code that depends on macros needs to be byte-compiled anew after loading the updated macros.

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