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From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
To: Sam Halliday <sam.halliday@gmail.com>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ido-find-file
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2015 01:35:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <567F2435.6020509@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <eba9bd54-403a-466d-b55a-4a1fcc293ddc@googlegroups.com>

On 12/27/2015 01:19 AM, Sam Halliday wrote:

> I have been trying out ido-find-file as a replacement for find-file and it was going really well until I tried to open a directory in dired.

You might prefer icomplete-mode over ido if you like more conservative 
behavior.

> The default in normal find-file is for RET to open a directory in dired, but with ido-find-file, RET will open a (useless) buffer containing the name of the files in that directory and C-d is needed to open the directory in dired.

Honestly, I'd just use C-j for that. And having to press C-d if I forget 
isn't too bad either.




      parent reply	other threads:[~2015-12-26 23:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-26 23:19 ido-find-file Sam Halliday
2015-12-26 23:27 ` ido-find-file Sam Halliday
2015-12-26 23:48   ` ido-find-file Sam Halliday
2015-12-26 23:51     ` ido-find-file Sam Halliday
2015-12-27  0:00     ` ido-find-file Sam Halliday
2015-12-26 23:35 ` Dmitry Gutov [this message]

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