Reputation: 2527

emacs create new file with ido enabled

I reciently switched to emacs starter kit which includes the ido package.

ido has a nice feature that suggests paths when find-file which is usually very handy except when trying to create a new file. When the new file name matches a suggestion in another path ido automatically switches to that path assuming that's what I wanted, but usually its not and I find it annoying.

To workaround the issue I either touch newfile from shell, create a new buffer and save as, or M-x find-file to get the original behavior. I could of course rebind C-x C-f to find-file again but must of the time I like ido-find-file, I just want it to stop automatically switching paths when I type the path explicitly.

I figure there is probably some simple key I can press during ido-find-file to tell it that the file I'm looking for does not exist and to stop making suggestions, or some var I can set to get more desirable behavior?

Upvotes: 115

Answers (5)

Luke

Reputation: 5076

On Fido, M-j does the trick. It's bound to icomplete-fido-exit by default.

Upvotes: 1

sabof

Reputation: 8192

A solution for a related problem - ido not asking overwrite confirmation.

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2010-11/msg00226.html

Upvotes: 2

Matthew

Reputation: 301

As mentioned: being fast, using C-j to confirm immediately, and using and additional C-f to temporarily switch to the traditional mode are all useful.

Also, when ido has already selected an alternate file path, you can hit C-z to return where you were and temporarily disable that behavior.

Upvotes: 30