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If you visit a directory with helm-find-files and type the name of a file that doesn't exist, before opening it in a new buffer helm will prompt:

File does not exist, create buffer?

I would like helm to just create the buffer, without the prompt. I can't find an option for it to do this: essentially I want a variable just like ido-create-new-buffer.

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  • I notice that ffap-newfile-prompt is nil, as I think it should be. ffap.el shows ((or (not ffap-newfile-prompt) (file-exists-p filename) (y-or-n-p "File does not exist, create buffer? ")) (funcall ffap-file-finder (expand-file-name filename))), so I'd have thought this would have worked, since I think helm is using this under the covers? (ffap.el line 1427, for me, Emacs 24.5.1.)
    – Chris Poole
    Commented Apr 25, 2015 at 10:27

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Reset to default
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You can set helm-ff-newfile-prompt-p to nil and Helm won't ask you anymore:

(setq helm-ff-newfile-prompt-p nil)
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