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Ivy is a generic completion mechanism for Emacs.

From the Ivy Manual:

Ivy is an interactive interface for completion in Emacs. Emacs uses completion mechanism in a variety of contexts: code, menus, commands, variables, functions, etc. Completion entails listing, sorting, filtering, previewing, and applying actions on selected items. When active, ivy-mode completes the selection process by narrowing available choices while previewing in the minibuffer. Selecting the final candidate is either through simple keyboard character inputs or through powerful regular expressions.

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Enable ivy fuzzy matching everywhere, except in swiper

I have been using flx-ido-mode for a while and I like it. Ivy can behave the same way by using ivy--regex-fuzzy. The problem is that swiper will also use fuzzy matching now and in this case I don't really like it (at least not as a default, all the…
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How do I prevent autocompletion when trying to save a file?

I have an existing directory called ~/app_scripts and a buffer open with a file I would like to save. I want to save it to ~/scripts/script.py, but the ~/scripts dir does not yet exist. When I hit C-x C-s to save, I try to type ~/scripts/ but it…
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Does ivy-occur have a follow mode?

In org-agenda, it is possible to enable a "follow mode" so that moving the point over an agenda item automatically displays the linked item in another window. In ivy-occur, you need to press f to get this, it doesn't happen automatically. Is there a…
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How to switch between Ivy completion styles?

There are three Ivy completion styles: ivy--regex-plus ivy--regex-ignore-order ivy--regex-fuzzy C-o (hydra-ivy/body) m toggles between ivy "ivy--regex-plus" and "ivy--regex-fuzzy". How to switch to ivy--regex-ignore-order completion style? For…
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Insert file path via counsel

A common part of my workflow is to copy and paste file paths into Emacs. This is usually done by navigating to the file in my desktop environment or from a terminal. What would be more convenient is for me to do so via counsel-find-file, navigate to…
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`ivy-read`: How to run action on every selection change?

I have been trying to implement a function with ivy that needs to run a particular function not only on selection but also on every selection change in the list. To be specific, when the user scrolls the list of available options, the currently…
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How to stop "completing-read" / "ivy-completing-read" from sorting?

Recently, when using Ivy and calling completing-read, my output is being sorted (instead of showing up in the order passed in). How can I prevent sorting the input to completing-read when using Ivy?
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How to keep Ivy from quitting when I press backspace in the minibuffer?

It's pretty annoying when I hold down Backspace one character too long in the minibuffer, causing Ivy to quit and then accidentally deleting some characters in the main buffer I'm working in. How do I change this behaviour?
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Disable ivy-mode in a specific buffer

Evaluating (ivy-mode 0) in a buffer kills ivy across all the other buffers, too. How to stop ivy in a specific buffer only (I don't need it in ERC, where i want TAB to give me a list of all the people in the channel, not just ten of them).
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Change face for ivy-custom-match

From the Ivy manual: Customizability is about being able to use different methods and interfaces of completion to tailor the selection process. For example, adding a custom display function that points to a selected candidate with ->, instead of…
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Fuzzy Search with Counsel

I have this function: crux-rename-file-and-buffer , but when I do M-x rename, why isn't this shown as an alternative? I thought ivy was supposed to assist with that, using a fuzzy search? Why is it not picking this up? My config to enable fuzzy: …
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How do I create a new file when there is already a similarly named one in the directory?

I want to create a file in Emacs called article.html.pm but I already have a file called article.html.pmd in the directory. Since I have Ivy it automatically finds the article.html.pmd and helpfully opens it since it's "close enough". But in this…
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ivy-switch-buffer, Narrow Results

When I C-x b with ivy-switch-buffer, I see that I have a README.md on line 6. If I enter md, I see that the README.md is now on line 13. How can that be? The first results are nonsensical, like helm-mode-magit-show-commit; why would it show that…
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Auto-load Ivy.elc failed to define swiper

I get the followingerror message: command-execute: Autoloading file /home/user/.emacs.d/elpa/ivy-20210506.2157/ivy.elc failed to define function swiper after just having installed emacs 27.2 and having this init.el: ;General Configuration (setq…
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emacs ivy always selecting default function

I just started trying out ivy. I took the following example from the ivy tutorial: (defun my-action-1 (x) (message "action-1: %s" x)) (defun my-action-2 (x) (message "action-2: %s" x)) (defun my-action-3 (x) (message "action-3: %s"…
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