Re: ido shows wrong completions

[Matthieu MOY]

Kim F. Storm said:

>> My advice would be to take the trailing slash into account. For example,
>> make "/" equivalent to what is currently "/ RET".
>
> Ido does that already if there are no other completions, see
> ido-enter-single-matching-directory.

How about this?

--- ido.el.orig 2005-08-16 15:44:53.000000000 +0200
+++ ido.el      2005-08-16 15:45:48.000000000 +0200
@@ -696,6 +696,14 @@
                 (other :tag "Always" t))
   :group 'ido)

+(defcustom ido-enter-matching-directory-anyway t
+  "*Automatically enter sub-directory even if it is not the only match.
+
+If non-nil, typing \"/\" enters the directory corresponding to the
+first match, even if it is not the only match."
+  :type 'boolean
+  :group 'ido)
+
 (defcustom ido-create-new-buffer 'prompt
   "*Specify whether a new buffer is created if no buffer matches substring.
 Choices are 'always to create new buffers unconditionally, 'prompt to
@@ -3976,7 +3984,8 @@

        (when (and ido-enter-single-matching-directory
                   ido-matches
-                  (null (cdr ido-matches))
+                  (or ido-enter-matching-directory-anyway
+                       (null (cdr ido-matches)))
                   (ido-final-slash (car ido-matches))
                   (or try-single-dir-match
                       (eq ido-enter-single-matching-directory t)))

(I leave the default value up to you ;-). The problem with this patch is
that it inhibit one feature of ido: typing '/' to be able to cycle through
directories. Well, *I* prefer the behavior of my patch, but I don't know
about other users).

-- 
Matthieu