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Re: ido-find-file
From: |
Sam Halliday |
Subject: |
Re: ido-find-file |
Date: |
Sat, 26 Dec 2015 16:00:13 -0800 (PST) |
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G2/1.0 |
On Saturday, 26 December 2015 23:49:01 UTC, Sam Halliday wrote:
> 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.
Another Sacha fix... (setq ido-show-dot-for-dired t) does exactly what I
wanted. Sorry for the noise!