From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: elisp: Text-based file-chooser Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2011 20:01:45 +0100 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net 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 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1294081347 16899 80.91.229.12 (3 Jan 2011 19:02:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 19:02:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: suvayu ali Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 03 20:02:23 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 1PZpfd-0005en-N7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2011 20:02:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36243 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PZpfd-0006Fy-A6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2011 14:02:17 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=53940 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PZpfD-0006Bz-2M for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2011 14:01:54 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PZpfB-0006C2-OX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2011 14:01:50 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-bw0-f41.google.com ([209.85.214.41]:42930) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PZpfB-0006By-J2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2011 14:01:49 -0500 Original-Received: by bwz16 with SMTP id 16so16600586bwz.0 for ; Mon, 03 Jan 2011 11:01:48 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:cc:subject :organization:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:user-agent :mime-version:content-type; bh=wNWme4HG1L0MIqFwtVS9C/6cYHRmPXy4es2zO3OlUUg=; b=tKqQ5q7y9q/biDF5JsBWHgjd6S25FF/Q5cyulUR6d7hpMQJLyuQriw7RxqqQqTq72x GDURuMGNQbxWbgLxx8JDQHo9LQB5do3xlimMPBkLm3yynrdNrn2YDTcnNcUB5B/sFHS+ XHZPse4ISWl3v+GZ9D+ypM+iY+uL9EKl1qxxE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:cc:subject:organization:references:date:in-reply-to :message-id:user-agent:mime-version:content-type; b=czcMWGDoQlHZpRjKes4S0Q2SBV0QQf7NIM5U0US2QEOQRUB9N9vVPpB7K3Ia1aAC8M xUXy7U5nkKZp9zY5pZMKOH0nERubdY7qfz+12fooN+t61g616k4xoPeyNeuIHkDBBD7t m9sF99CRdKrMnR41kBr9A7QVdfG3AbwwBxp0o= Original-Received: by 10.204.118.66 with SMTP id u2mr3454970bkq.173.1294081308134; Mon, 03 Jan 2011 11:01:48 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from localhost ([85.183.18.158]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id q18sm11609161bka.3.2011.01.03.11.01.46 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 03 Jan 2011 11:01:46 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: (suvayu ali's message of "Mon, 3 Jan 2011 10:52:45 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) 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:78123 Archived-At: suvayu ali writes: > 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. The key with new files is C-j I think. Admittedly I dont use shared folders. I do use it over ssh just fine.