Re: ido-completing-read and substrings of choices

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

> The documentation on ido.el is centered around selecting files and
> buffers. However, ido-mode is so convenient that more and more people
> are using ido-completing-read as a replacement for completing-read on
> lots of contexts. IMHO ido-completing-read deserves move visibility on
> the documentation at the top of ido.el or, better, explain the general
> goal of ido-mode starting from ido-completing-read and present file and
> buffer selection as specific applications.

FWIW, the default completion code in Emacs has been slowly evolving to
get closer to IDO (e.g. in Emacs-24, C-x b does substring completion).
It will probably never be identical to IDO (because of some fundamental
UI incompatibilities), but feel free to request the addition of
particular IDO features via M-x report-emacs-bug.


        Stefan