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Emacs mode for files

ido-mode is a mode that is included with emacs since version 22. It lets you "interactively do things" with buffers and files. In general, it can make it much faster and easier to navigate among both open buffers and different files in a project.

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Change location of .ido.last history file in Emacs on Windows

Using Emacs with ido mode enabled on Windows, Emacs tries to save a history file .ido.last when exiting. The file is located in C:/.ido.last, but it fails with a permission denied message. This is strange since I actually have access to that folder.…
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ido mode filenames for vim?

I strictly use vim, but I was playing with emacs and really like ido-mode when opening files. just start typing part of a filename and it narrows down the search and just press enter when the file you want is at the front of the list. is there…
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How to prevent emacs annoying habit of adding the current word to any command buffer?

Whenever I c-x c-f, emacs adds the current word at the cursor point to the c-x c-f. I believe this is probably due to ido. How can I turn this off?
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Stop tramp from opening remote directories when using ido-mode

I have a problem with ido-mode. As I cycle through work directories (using M-n), one of the directories is inevitably on a remote server, which makes tramp start authenticating. I know I can edit the ido-work-directory-list-ignore-regexps variable,…
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Set up ido mode in emacs 21

I am using ido mode. and GNUM emacs 21.1.1 on AIX. I add the ido.el in the .emacs.d. and add the following in the .emacs file. (load-file "~/.emacs.d/site-lisp/ido/ido.el") (require 'ido) (ido-mode t) (setq ido-enable-flex-matching t) ;; enable…
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Emacs ido start with open buffers first in cycle list

When switching buffers with emacs ido mode enabled, a list of completions are displayed in the minibuffer. It appears there is a "feature" that buffers that are already open are put to the end of the list. I, however, often open the same buffer in…
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How to remap keys in ido-find-file?

I have been trying to make a few changes to ido-mode to make it more useful. One of the things which I have been trying to do is to remap some of the keys which I use in ido-find-file. The main one is that I want to use C-d to call the…
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emacs ido-mode select and edit completion

using ido for find file completion, is it possible to select and edit the first completion? Eg., if I had this, I'd like to complete with apples, but not to ido-exit-minibuffer so I can add to the end of apples: From: Find file: /home/me/{apples |…
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ido-mode outdated file list

I am using Emacs on Windows 7, and am finding that ido-mode is not picking up some files created since I started using it. E.g. directory contains: foo.txt bar.txt Open foo.txt in Emacs. Later, create blah.txt in the directory (also in Emacs). When…
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Paths with whitespaces in ido (find-file) (on MS Windows)

I am running GNU Emacs 23 on a Windows-machine and having problems getting ido-find-file to match files that contain whitespaces. In my .emacs I (setq ido-use-filename-at-point t) and would like to match a string like "D:\Dokumente und…
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Getting ido mode functionality similar to dired-at-point in emacs

I like using ido mode in emacs and the listing of directories with C-x C-d which runs ido-list-directory. Is there a command to enable ido-mode operation but at the current point like dired-at-point. I use this quite often but would prefer to use…
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ido-completing-read interaction with _ and -, hides possible results

When using ido-completing-read (ido-completing-read "Which tag: " '("DALL-E" "monoidallens") nil t) it finds both tags when I type "dall" but once I enter "dalle" it no longer finds "DALL-E" Which tag: dall{DALL-E | monoidallens} Which tag:…
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Opening file from some other drive when ido-mode is enabeled in emacs 24

In emacs 24 on windows 7, I have enable Ido-mode. When hitting C-x C-f to visit a file, then in mini-buffer I cannot delete C:\ as I want to open file from some other drive.
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I've never used ido mode. Do I want to?

What am I missing if I don't use ido mode? Is my life incomplete until I take the ido plunge?
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How do I get Emacs ido-mode's recent file list to ignore uninteresting files?

How do I get Emacs ido-mode's recentf-list to ignore uninteresting files? I'm using ido-mode with xSteve's function for ido recent files (see below for the function). But as it is now, it displays uninteresting files first, like this: ->…
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