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I was not the only one who thought ido is very inconvenient when trying to write a new file. The emacs wiki has a section dedicated to disabling ido for write-file:

Disable ido mode for particular commands, e.g. write-file

Their suggestion is to turn off ido for write file using:

 (define-key (cdr ido-minor-mode-map-entry) [remap write-file] nil)

This does not seem to work for me. ido still runs when I hit C-x C-w. Any suggestions?

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    I know I can exit ido with C-f. That is not a satisfactory solution.
    – Snelephant
    Commented Sep 6, 2016 at 1:19
  • FYI: The ido.el library is disabled by default when starting with emacs -q -- i.e., no user configuration. If you start with no user configuration and then type M-x eval-expression RET (featurep 'ido) RET you will see that the return value is nil because it is not loaded by default.
    – lawlist
    Commented Sep 6, 2016 at 2:12
  • I too am annoyed by this. My solution is just type file name and hit C-j.
    – Xah Lee
    Commented Sep 6, 2016 at 10:35
  • Lawlist, (featurep 'ido) returns t. So I assume the user configuration is loaded.
    – Snelephant
    Commented Sep 7, 2016 at 8:20
  • Xah Lee (honored), My motivation is that I need to save frequent iterations of a file (long_filename_01, long_filename_02, etc. and git style versioning is not an option) so I use C-x C-w C-f M-n to edit just the last character in the filename. That is lot of chording for such a common and important action.
    – Snelephant
    Commented Sep 7, 2016 at 8:26

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Reset to default
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the following should work.

(require 'ido)
(ido-mode)
(define-key (cdr ido-minor-mode-map-entry) [remap write-file] nil)

the problem was caused by ido not initialized. Need the (ido-mode) line there.

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  • The second line produces Wrong type argument: keymapp, nil
    – Snelephant
    Commented Oct 25, 2016 at 2:21
  • that means for some reason you don't have ido-minor-mode-map-entry defined. (the cdr part of that variable should be a keymap, but you got nil) What emacs version are you using? also, did you run that require ido line?
    – Xah Lee
    Commented Oct 28, 2016 at 21:51
  • The code is in my init.el exactly as shown in your answer, including the require ido line. No other references to ido in my initialization. Version: Emacs 25.1.1 (x86_64-w64-mingw32)
    – Snelephant
    Commented Dec 6, 2016 at 15:09
  • i modified the answer. need the (ido-mode) line. try that. I tried, worked now. also on emacs 25.1.
    – Xah Lee
    Commented Dec 7, 2016 at 18:22
  • If you use (setq ido-everywhere t) you'll need also (add-to-list 'ido-read-file-name-non-ido 'write-file).
    – Arch Stanton
    Commented Feb 9, 2020 at 9:10
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Use C-x C-f C-f to bypass ido-mode when it gets in the way.

To "save as", same: C-x C-w C-w but this time you stay in ido-mode, only you can edit the prompt.

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  • I think it's C-f to bypass ido-mode even when in "Write file"
    – Oin
    Commented Apr 13, 2019 at 21:38

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