From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Robert Thorpe <rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com>
Subject: Re: Creating New Files Using Ido
Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2017 08:32:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zii1drei.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878tplw1yt.fsf@iki.fi>
On 2017-02-05, at 08:06, Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> wrote:
> Robert Thorpe [2017-02-04 22:49:00Z] wrote:
>
>> Often, I want to create a new file that has a similar filename to an
>> existing file. This is due to a naming convention used where I work.
>
>> I usually have Ido enabled. I can't figure out how to do this without
>> disabling it. The problem is that it always completes to the name of
>> the existing file. Is there a way to do this with Ido on?
>
> You probably create new files with C-x C-f or C-x C-w and get the Ido
> prompt. If you then press C-f you'll switch to normal Emacs prompt which
> I think is often better than Ido when creating new files or directories.
This is (slightly) off-topic, but a _former_ user of Ido, converted to
Ivy (better imho) here: in Ivy, you can press C-M-j instead of RET.
Best,
--
Marcin Borkowski
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-05 7:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-04 22:49 Creating New Files Using Ido Robert Thorpe
2017-02-04 22:55 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-02-05 7:06 ` Teemu Likonen
2017-02-05 7:32 ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2017-02-06 8:21 ` AW
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