bug#11954: 24.1.50; Ido in dired buffers

[Kim Storm]

On 2013-07-11 18:02, Leo Liu wrote:
> On 2013-07-11 16:45 +0800, Kim Storm wrote:
> > As far as I remember it was disabled because - as you type the new
> > name - ido would suggest names of existing files,
> > and when you hit return, the first suggested file (if any matches the
> > new name) is overwritten.
> >
> > So I think it was too dangerous to enable by default .
> >
> > Kim
> Thanks, Kim, for the information.
>
> We don't opt out `dired-do-copy' for ido and people seem to handle it
> alright. Also `dired-do-rename' provides confirmation query when
> overwriting an existing file.
>
> So I am leaning towards enabling ido for dired-do-rename. WDYT?
>
> Leo

IIRC this is first complaint against the default since ido was included, 
so maybe most
users actually prefer the default.  In most cases, rename works better 
without ido.
And I probably got bitten more than once back when I decided to disable it.

The exception might be when you want to move the file to another directory,
then ido may help locating the target directory.

So I would prefer to keep the default
- and maybe even disable ido for dired-do-copy as well  :-)

Kim