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Ido mode is too smart, can I get it to NOT complete a filename?
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In my current working directory ~/WD
there is a abc.txt
file. Now I want to make another abc.txt
under a sub directory ~/WD/NEW/
. As I type C-x C-f
and the directory ~/WD/NEW/abc.txt
, ido is changing the string into ~/WD/abc.txt
, which is not what I want to open. As I try to modify the string back, ido automatically "correct" my input into the wrong string again.
Is there any way to solve this issue?
If you're using ido
to open a file and you want to "step out" of ido
in the middle of completing, you can use C-f
. For example:
Ctrl+X Ctrl+F (find-file
)
Find file: ~/{ .emacs.d/ | bin/ | some-file.txt | tmp/ ... }
T Enter (narrow options with ido
)
Find file: ~/tmp/{ file1.txt | file2.txt | subdir/ }
Ctrl+F ("step out" of ido
mode)
Find file: ~/tmp/
Another way of avoiding the completion proposed by ido
is to validate your entry using C-j instead of RET
Example, in a case where file foobar
already exists and you want to create file foo
C-xC-f (find-file
)
Find file: ~/{.emacs.d | ... | foobar}
foo (ido narrows options)
Find file: ~/foo[foobar]
C-j (ido-select-text
)
This creates file foo
instead of accepting ido
's foobar
completion