Re: ido-find-file

[Sam Halliday <sam.halliday@gmail.com>]

On Saturday, 26 December 2015 23:27:44 UTC, Sam Halliday  wrote:
> On Saturday, 26 December 2015 23:20:00 UTC, Sam Halliday  wrote:
> > Dear Emacs users,
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> > There is no way I'm going to be able to retrain my fingers to do that, and it is also undesirable behaviour. Is there any way to get ido-find-file to DWIM?
> 
> 
> I found this hack from JohnWiegley http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/InteractivelyDoThings#toc29 which does the job but is really quite ugly/long. It would be good if this was in the mainline and possible the default.
> 
>  (defun ido-smart-select-text ()
>     "Select the current completed item.  Do NOT descend into directories."
>     (interactive)
>     (when (and (or (not ido-require-match)
>                    (if (memq ido-require-match
>                              '(confirm confirm-after-completion))
>                        (if (or (eq ido-cur-item 'dir)
>                                (eq last-command this-command))
>                            t
>                          (setq ido-show-confirm-message t)
>                          nil))
>                    (ido-existing-item-p))
>                (not ido-incomplete-regexp))
>       (when ido-current-directory
>         (setq ido-exit 'takeprompt)
>         (unless (and ido-text (= 0 (length ido-text)))
>           (let ((match (ido-name (car ido-matches))))
>             (throw 'ido
>                    (setq ido-selected
>                          (if match
>                              (replace-regexp-in-string "/\\'" "" match)
>                            ido-text)
>                          ido-text ido-selected
>                          ido-final-text ido-text)))))
>       (exit-minibuffer)))
>   
>   (eval-after-load "ido"
>     '(define-key ido-common-completion-map "\C-m" 'ido-smart-select-text))

actually this hack doesn't do what I want. All I want is for ido-find-file to open up directories in dired instead of this functionless Fundamental mode it drops me into if I press RET when I select a directory.