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Wasteland
Wasteland

Reputation: 5379

Emacs Dired - C-x C-f to create a new file gives me suggestions of existing files

I'm trying to create a file in dired mode in emacs. I am in the right directory and when I press C-x C-f as suggested elsewhere on SO and type 'img' (that's the name of the file I want to create), it tries to find existing files from other directories including the pattern 'img'. Then I'm stuck as if I press enter, it'll open the first suggested file containing the pattern 'img' from other directories, TAB will just go over the suggestions.

Please advise.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 675

Answers (1)

mihai
mihai

Reputation: 4722

You are probably using ido-find-file with which you can interactively select a file by typing a substring of that file name.

If you want to temporarily disable this feature (i.e. for your current search only) just press C-f before typing the name of your new file (i.e. immediatly after C-x C-f).

Upvotes: 7

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