That doesn't work, unfortunately - I tried it., as well as emulating the
other dired stuff.  I'm not sure why that doesn't work, but I managed to
write a function that does:

(defun ido-shell ()
  (interactive)
  (let ((dirname (expand-file-name (ido-read-directory-name "Shell in
directory: "))))
    (shell dirname)
    (comint-send-string (current-buffer) (concat "cd " dirname "\n"))))

Thanks,
Nathaniel Flath

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 12:00 AM, Kevin Rodgers
<kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>wrote:

> Nathaniel Flath wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> I have ido activated.  If I do C-x C-f and navigate to a directory, C-d
>> will open a dired buffer in that directory.  Is there a way to open a shell
>> buffer instead?
>>
>
> I don't use ido, so I don't even know how to test this.  But here's what I
> came
> up with from looking at ido.el.  I didn't understand how to properly
> implement
> ido-magic-control-s, so you have to type `C-x C-f C-x C-s' (by analogy with
> `C-x C-f C-x C-d', which runs ido-enter-dired):
>
> (defun ido-enter-shell ()
>  "Drop into `shell' from file switching."
>  (interactive)
>  (setq ido-exit 'shell)
>  (exit-minibuffer))
>
> (define-key ido-file-dir-completion-map "\C-x\C-s" 'ido-enter-shell)
>
> --
> Kevin Rodgers
> Denver, Colorado, USA
>
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