From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: suvayu ali Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: elisp: Text-based file-chooser Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 10:52:45 -0800 Message-ID: References: <87r5cvuf12.fsf@puma.rapttech.com.au> <87d3oenb6s.fsf@puma.rapttech.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1294080828 14338 80.91.229.12 (3 Jan 2011 18:53:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 18:53:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Richard Riley Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 03 19:53:43 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PZpXL-0000PI-6O for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2011 19:53:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57781 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PZpXK-0000X4-RZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2011 13:53:42 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=37282 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PZpWn-0000Ve-0Y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2011 13:53:10 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PZpWl-0004OW-Pr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2011 13:53:08 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-fx0-f41.google.com ([209.85.161.41]:41317) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PZpWl-0004OI-KC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2011 13:53:07 -0500 Original-Received: by fxm12 with SMTP id 12so6852645fxm.0 for ; Mon, 03 Jan 2011 10:53:06 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:mime-version:sender:received :in-reply-to:references:from:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id :subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=S394K5yhksMuU/mhRVi6geQq/JYLcIBhnA4+s0PGZFY=; b=jUZKR9h7P+hsKgMCQD4fdQvJuGyjU3TorX2385jnvFQ68kYhkT9s4pYxjKT10cZ3OV sTbtory37pJa8phfbr2I56M0esCF6DKfIFkm/HWdsj8IA7u+TOvmn09Cuwjd4JLPL3vw EpTrKPmy84fgkUzM9Ewgxy1h9JTgwvrMjq1ck= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; b=rgkfFz07xNuEINNSUEuAzuLnHxT2F7ofPgPnisMEabarOuwY1vBq0EYFzBCIjY0G30 eTZrBkVjPBdh3CGvmOfPMswFaM9DGZx/r8mfHV+6NsYokMl7YSB+THQoIh4ALwgUesqc 8weuzokALObZFbo2/Yy86AzpQqMeXR5owMRWw= Original-Received: by 10.223.79.4 with SMTP id n4mr2944837fak.69.1294080785638; Mon, 03 Jan 2011 10:53:05 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.223.71.207 with HTTP; Mon, 3 Jan 2011 10:52:45 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: X-Google-Sender-Auth: L00Y72b_6wypLarDiL8J-1enBFk X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:78121 Archived-At: On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Richard Riley wrote: >> Tried it and found it got in the way as often as it was helpful. Tweaked >> and forced myself to use it for two months and then turned it off - best >> thing I ever did. > > What kind of things got in the way? That said, there is ONE things that > niggles me, sometimes when I type a file name it seems to go find it in > another directory. but not always.... A bug I fancy but I cant pinpoint > it. > I had problems when using with tramp over ssh. Also on systems with very large number of users, going to some one else's shared folder posed a huge problem. Emacs would hang as ido attempted to look for possible completions. I also felt although finding existing files was easier, creating new ones was very clunky. But then I tried it quite a while back, and I didn't really try to customise anything. -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.