Ido for saving files or similar?

Ido for saving files or similar?

[simonh]

I'm using ido for opening files and switching buffers which is great.
I'm also using smex for command completion etc. Is there anything
similar for saving files? It feels wrong to have to type the path in
manually now.

Thanks.

Re: Ido for saving files or similar?

[Tassilo Horn]

simonh <simonharrison.uk@googlemail.com> writes:

> I'm using ido for opening files and switching buffers which is great.
> I'm also using smex for command completion etc. Is there anything
> similar for saving files? It feels wrong to have to type the path in
> manually now.

Ido-mode uses ido completion for saving files (C-x C-w), too.  At least,
it does here.

Bye,
Tassilo

Re: Ido for saving files or similar?

[Stefan Monnier]

> I'm using ido for opening files and switching buffers which is great.
> I'm also using smex for command completion etc.  Is there anything
> similar for saving files? It feels wrong to have to type the path in
> manually now.

BTW, patches to bring the default built-in completion code closer to
ido/smex would be welcome (note: I'm talking about the code, not
necessarily its default behavior).  It's delicate tho, but if you think
of how Emacs-23's completion is closer (especially if you enable
icomplete-mode and bind minibuffer-force-complete to a key), it might
give you ideas.


        Stefan

Re: Ido for saving files or similar?

[Tassilo Horn]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

Hi Stefan,

> BTW, patches to bring the default built-in completion code closer to
> ido/smex would be welcome (note: I'm talking about the code, not
> necessarily its default behavior).  It's delicate tho, but if you
> think of how Emacs-23's completion is closer (especially if you enable
> icomplete-mode and bind minibuffer-force-complete to a key), it might
> give you ideas.

Hey, that's nice.  `minibuffer-force-complete' should be bound in
`minibuffer-local-completion-map', right?

Is it normal, that icomplete doesn't show completions for files?  Here,
it works for the `describe-function', `describe-variable', and for
buffer switching, but for not for `find-file' and friends.

Bye,
Tassilo

Re: Ido for saving files or similar?

[Stefan Monnier]

> Hey, that's nice.  `minibuffer-force-complete' should be bound in
> `minibuffer-local-completion-map', right?

Yes.  I personally bind it to M-TAB.

> Is it normal, that icomplete doesn't show completions for files?  Here,
> it works for the `describe-function', `describe-variable', and for
> buffer switching, but for not for `find-file' and friends.

Kind of.  Please report it as a bug.
In the mean time, you can add read-file-name-internal to
icomplete-with-completion-tables.


        Stefan

Re: Ido for saving files or similar?

[Tassilo Horn]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

Hi Stefan,

>> Hey, that's nice.  `minibuffer-force-complete' should be bound in
>> `minibuffer-local-completion-map', right?
>
> Yes.  I personally bind it to M-TAB.

That's what I did.  Copyist! ;-)

>> Is it normal, that icomplete doesn't show completions for files?
>> Here, it works for the `describe-function', `describe-variable', and
>> for buffer switching, but for not for `find-file' and friends.
>
> Kind of.  Please report it as a bug.

I'll do.

> In the mean time, you can add read-file-name-internal to
> icomplete-with-completion-tables.

Works perfect.

,----[ C-h v icomplete-with-completion-tables RET ]
| icomplete-with-completion-tables is a variable defined in `icomplete.el'.
| Its value is 
| (read-file-name-internal internal-complete-buffer)
| 
| Documentation:
| Specialized completion tables with which icomplete should operate.
| 
| Icomplete does not operate with any specialized completion tables
| except those on this list.
`----

But why does it complete functions and variables, too?  The last
paragraph seems to contradict this behavior.

Bye,
Tassilo