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Re: ido-find-file
From: |
Sam Halliday |
Subject: |
Re: ido-find-file |
Date: |
Sat, 26 Dec 2015 15:48:58 -0800 (PST) |
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G2/1.0 |
On Saturday, 26 December 2015 23:27:44 UTC, Sam Halliday wrote:
> On Saturday, 26 December 2015 23:20:00 UTC, Sam Halliday wrote:
> > Dear Emacs users,
> >
> > I have been trying out ido-find-file as a replacement for find-file and it
> > was going really well until I tried to open a directory in dired.
> >
> > The default in normal find-file is for RET to open a directory in dired,
> > but with ido-find-file, RET will open a (useless) buffer containing the
> > name of the files in that directory and C-d is needed to open the directory
> > in dired.
> >
> > There is no way I'm going to be able to retrain my fingers to do that, and
> > it is also undesirable behaviour. Is there any way to get ido-find-file to
> > DWIM?
>
>
> I found this hack from JohnWiegley
> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/InteractivelyDoThings#toc29 which does the job
> but is really quite ugly/long. It would be good if this was in the mainline
> and possible the default.
>
> (defun ido-smart-select-text ()
> "Select the current completed item. Do NOT descend into directories."
> (interactive)
> (when (and (or (not ido-require-match)
> (if (memq ido-require-match
> '(confirm confirm-after-completion))
> (if (or (eq ido-cur-item 'dir)
> (eq last-command this-command))
> t
> (setq ido-show-confirm-message t)
> nil))
> (ido-existing-item-p))
> (not ido-incomplete-regexp))
> (when ido-current-directory
> (setq ido-exit 'takeprompt)
> (unless (and ido-text (= 0 (length ido-text)))
> (let ((match (ido-name (car ido-matches))))
> (throw 'ido
> (setq ido-selected
> (if match
> (replace-regexp-in-string "/\\'" "" match)
> ido-text)
> ido-text ido-selected
> ido-final-text ido-text)))))
> (exit-minibuffer)))
>
> (eval-after-load "ido"
> '(define-key ido-common-completion-map "\C-m" 'ido-smart-select-text))
actually this hack doesn't do what I want. All I want is for ido-find-file to
open up directories in dired instead of this functionless Fundamental mode it
drops me into if I press RET when I select a directory.