telling Icicles to ignore matches when creating a file

Question

I use Icicles for auto-completion when for example finding a file in emacs. However sometimes I need to create a file with a particular name filename.tex in a directory and the autcomplete automatically finds a file with a similar name filanem_another.tex in another directory (I'm guessing from history).

This is annoying as it prevents making new files using C-x C-f and instead finds a similar file.

How can I ignore Icicles's suggestions?

Answer 1

Please try to provide a step-by-step recipe of what you do. So far, I don't recognize the behavior you describe. What do you mean by "autocompletion" and "Icicles's suggestions", for example?

Also mention whether you have any Icicles customizations. Best is a recipe that starts from emacs -Q (no init file), saying exactly what to do to reproduce the problem. And please mention your emacs-version.

By default, in Icicle mode C-x C-f is bound to icicle-file. You should be able to enter any file name you like at the prompt; you need not choose any of the completion candidates, and you need not even complete (TAB or S-TAB). (And completion does not complete against the history.) IOW, in these respects C-x C-f should behave the same as in vanilla Emacs.

[To those tempted to complain that this is a comment and not a real answer: I intend to answer the question here, when I get some more info about it.]