I am experiencing a frustrating bug when trying to load a directory at point using ido-find-file. The line I am working on is: (add-to-list 'ac-dictionary-directories "~/.emacs.d/elpa/auto-complete-20141111.2346/dict") Point is within the quotes. I try C-x C-f and instead of opening the directory (which is a valid one, I have checked repeatedly), it instead suggests that I open "~/.emacs.d/elpa/cider-20141116.1221/dict" I can only guess that it is tripping up on auto-complete's directory for some reason. I have checked other paths though, and ido finds them properly. 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