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When I do C-x C-f .emacs.d/i TAB Emacs displays a new buffer which presents "Possible completions", which are in my case auto-save-list/, history and init.el. I would like to have it complete to just .emacs.d/init.el.
I have the following inside init.el regarding ido:
(require 'ido)
(ido-mode 1)
(setq ido-enable-flex-matching t)
You can control this by setting the variable ido-enable-prefix to t:
(setq ido-enable-prefix t)
From the documentation:
Non-
nilmeans only match if the entered text is a prefix of file name. This behavior is like the standard Emacs completion. Ifnil, match if the entered text is an arbitrary substring. Value can be toggled within Ido usingido-toggle-prefix.
The value of ido-enable-flex-matching does not interfere with this setting.
Of course, if .emacs.d/i is a prefix for more than one file, Emacs will still list possible completions.
ido-enable-prefix means flex matching will never be used. Is there a case I'm missing where having both turned on is useful? I prefer to enable flex matching and then toggle prefix matching on the fly (using C-p) when I need it.
– glucas
Nov 4 '14 at 19:38
