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While an ido command is active (ido-find-file in this case), you can drop back to the non-ido version of the same command (find-file in this case) using the ido-default binding C-x C-f for ido-fallback-command.

To answer you question,

• The first C-x C-f will call ido-find-file.
• The second C-x C-f will fall back to find-file.
• Then you can do C-a C-y C-k RET as you usually do to yank a copied file path into the minibuffer.

While an ido command is active (ido-find-file in this case), you can drop back to the non-ido version of the same command (find-file in this case) using the ido-default binding C-x C-f for ido-fallback-command.

To answer you question,

• The first C-x C-f will call ido-find-file.
• The second C-x C-f will fall back to find-file.
• Then you can do C-a C-y C-k RET as you usually do to yank a copied file path into the minibuffer.

Note: In ido, C-x C-f C-x C-f will do the same thing as C-x C-f C-f, i.e. fall back to find-file.

About C-f in ido In ido-mode, C-f is bound to ido-magic-forward-char. From ido.el,

(defun ido-magic-forward-char (arg)
  "Move forward in user input or perform magic action.
If no user input is present, or at end of input, perform magic actions:
C-x C-b ... C-f  switch to `ido-find-file'.
C-x C-f ... C-f  fallback to non-Ido `find-file'.
C-x C-d ... C-f  fallback to non-Ido brief `dired'.
C-x d ... C-f    fallback to non-Ido `dired'."

While in ido-find-file, you can drop back to stock find-file with C-x C-f and paste in or do whatever you normally do with stock find-file.

While an ido command is active (ido-find-file in this case), you can drop back to the non-ido version of the same command (find-file in this case) using the ido-default binding C-x C-f for ido-fallback-command.

To answer you question,

• The first C-x C-f will call ido-find-file.
• The second C-x C-f will fall back to find-file.
• Then you can do C-a C-y C-k RET as you usually do to yank a copied file path into the minibuffer.

You can drop back to stock find-file with C-x C-f and paste in or do whatever you normally do with stock find-file.

While in ido-find-file, you can drop back to stock find-file with C-x C-f and paste in or do whatever you normally do with stock find-file.