Re: finding files not visited

[Jeffrey Spencer <jeffspencerd@gmail.com>]

Andrea,

King of confused on what this does. Basically ido acts as normal but 
when you call the function below it sets it to use the find command to 
recurse through subdirectories. Mine is set to 0.7 which means it should 
be activated anyway but doesn't seem to work like that. It seems to only 
recurse up through the directory structure if it isn't found from what I 
am seeing.

Also when I try adding that I get an error saying the completion map is 
void. Is this something you set up a key mapping for in your .emacs.

Cheers,
Jeff

On 16/09/11 00:45, Richard Riley wrote:
> Andrea Crotti<andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com>  writes:
>
>> On 09/14/2011 04:27 PM, suvayu ali wrote:
>>> Try ido-mode for files. But a word of caution, if any of the
>>> directories have too many (~100s) files or sub-directories and are
>>> remote (as in you are remote editing with tramp) emacs might become
>>> extremely slow trying to find completions.
>> I already use ido-mode, but it doesn't recurse in the subdirectories (at least
>> not by default).
>>
>> I don't see any variable to customize for that, am I blind?
>>
>> I like the dired solution, and for example I can set up some dir-local-variable
>> setting the right switches, for example it's a good idea to filter hidden
>> directories (like .git or .bzr).
>>
>> I'll give finally a try also to anything
>>
> I got this off planetemacsen I think it was. It triggers the "find"
> manually.
>
> ;; disable auto searching for files unless called explicitly
>     (setq ido-auto-merge-delay-time 99999)
>     (define-key ido-file-dir-completion-map (kbd "C-c C-s")
>        (lambda()
>          (interactive)
>          (ido-initiate-auto-merge (current-buffer))))
>
> regards
>
> r.
>
>