Questions tagged [ido]
Ido provides a very convenient way to find files and switch buffers in Emacs.
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How to prompt for a virtual buffer (recently killed file buffer) using Ido completion?
When ido-use-virtual-buffers is set to t, ido-switch-buffer shows, after the list of live buffers, a list of killed file buffers in chronological order, last killed first. Those are what Ido calls ...
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Re-visit a file whose buffer I just killed [duplicate]
I've not found any straightforward way to re-visit a file whose buffer I just killed. Sort of like undoing the killing of the buffer.
I thought about getting the file's path from Ido's virtual buffers ...
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Ido only shows directories and no files
When I am using ido, it only shows the folders and not the files within the folders. I have the following code in the init.el file:
;;Setup ido ...
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read-file-name: input an non-existing file with a default name in ido
I'd like to ask to the user where to save a .png file, where I provide some defaults, like:
(read-file-name "Picture name:" "/tmp" "mydefaultname.png")
(ideally in a ...
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`ido-find-file` always trigger `ido-reread-directory`
Tried following this answer, but did not work on Emacs27
(defadvice ido-find-file (before auto-refresh-ido nil activate)
(setq ido-rescan t))
Also tried but did not work because when ido-reread-...
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How can I exit completing-read with the current string instead of a completion with fido?
Consider the following code:
(fido-mode 1)
(let ((answer (completing-read "Please enter nothing: " '("Something"))))
(if (string= answer "")
(message "You ...
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How to define a command to switch to the current candidate buffer in Ido?
I'm trying to write a command that I would call while using ido-switch-buffer or ido-kill-buffer to open the current candidate in another window. Ideally it would be able to open virtual buffers as ...
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How to open full path of a file in ido-find-file?
I am looking to open a full path as fast as possible.Using ido-find-file makes it difficult. When I apply ido-find-file, following line show up.
Find file: ~/folder/work
Here I have a full path(ex: /...
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ido-find-file how to prevent `In this buffer, type RET to select the completion near point.` message to show up
I keep seeing following at the top of the buffer when I do: ido-find-file.
In this buffer, type RET to select the completion near point.
Possible completions are:
Would it be possible to prevent ...
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How to remove empty space on ido-find-file's completions minibuffer window
When I use ido-find-file and press TAB I see the found filenames in a half windows size. Instead could it be compact, where can emtpy space removed?
Ex:
minimal.el:
(ido-mode 1)
(require 'consult)
(...
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Is it problematic to use simultaneously Helm and Ido-mode? What are the consequences?
I am new to Emacs. When I started using it 2 months ago, a co-worker suggested using helm which definitely improved my use of Emacs.
In addition, I have been slowly reading the book Mastering Emacs, ...
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Open recent directories like Ido opens files
When I want to open a recent file, I use ido-find-find (C-x C-f) or ido-switch-buffer (C-x b) and type a few characters and Ido automatically finds the right file among the recent files I have visited....
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How show corresponding key binding of command during M-x completion?
Linux Mint 20
Emacs 27.2
ido-mode
When I press M-x then show (ido-mode) the list of functions.
Nice. But sometime it is not enough. I need to know what is keybinding for this functions. Is it ...
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How can I prevent `C-s` from invoking I-search while using Smex?
While using M-x ; by default C-s was binding to next line so I used to keep pressing C-s to toggle around. When I start using smex, C-s is now it is bound to I-search in some cases as follows:
M-x ...
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Make ido-completing-map override minibuffer-inactive-mode-map
I'm trying to bind a key in ido-completing-map, and I want it to override the key-binding with the same key from minibuffer-inactive-mode-map. But the latter seems to take precedence. How can I remedy ...
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How to disable keybinding (`\C-o`) in ido-find-file?
I want to disable key-binding \C-o on ido-find-file. If I press it generates ^J and completion does not completed so I want to disable it.
I have tried following but it did not work.
(defun ido-common-...
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ido-mode breaks docker-tramp completion in minibuffer, and opens wrong files
Somehow the following minimal emacs config breaks docker-tramp. Completion in the mini-buffer does not work for /docker:, nor the container ids/names like /docker:43893ad331df, and once you type out ...
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How to delete backward word in find-file using ido?
I was using regular find-file, and have a current setup to delete a word, which was working inside find-file.
(defun backward-delete-word (arg)
"Delete characters backward until encountering the ...
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find-file using ido as case sensitive
I was using regular find-file, where when I type D and press tab it will consider case sensitive file names, such as Driver.py and ignore others such as driver.
I have enabled: (ido-mode 1). I ...
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Icomplete and Ido: Why are both in the codebase?
My question is pretty simple, and that is why Ido and Icomplete are both available in emacs.
I find it very strange that the two modes exist together, seeing that they both do what is essentially the ...
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Why aren't recently visited files at the front of the list for `ido-switch-buffer`?
I don't understand why, no matter what, scratch, Messages, Compile-Log etc are always the buffers that show up first.
I use now this little function
(defun ido-recentf-open ()
"Use `ido-completing-...
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Why does ido, when used with recentf, show candidates in the order it does?
Wanting to stay simple as possible I refrain from using Helm or Ivy etc. and use IDO. Ido-switch-buffer is supposed to allow me to access recently opened buffers quite efficiently with the help of ...
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Is there a way (a package?) to "redirect" pop-up menus to the minibuffer, ido, or completion buffer; either generic or flyspell-specific
Sometimes I must use Emacs (in X mode) over a network connection (for example, working on a cloud VM). I am pretty comfortable with the interface responsiveness inside a frame, although X is ...
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How to always show buffer in the new created frame?
My workflow is:
I initialize emacs with a shortcut (in my ~/.i3/config I have a line like this bindcode $mod+49 exec emacsclient -c -n -q -a=''. I use i3wm.org)
By default it goes to temp.org, in ....
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emacs ivy: disable ido completition
I am using GNU Emacs 26.2 and ivy from melpa.
When I run M-x and enter:
M-x magit-status
ivy suggests:
ido-enter-magit-status
magit-status
magit-status-mode
I don't use use ido, I have no idea ...
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Setting the major mode of a new buffer interactively
When creating a new buffer via:
C-x b
NonExistentBufferName RET RET
I would like Emacs to prompt me for the major mode this buffer is going to use upon opening.
Moreover, I want Emacs to infer the ...
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Why ido mode automatically change current folder when create new file?
I want to create file credenentials.txt in folder d:/dev/GoogleDrive/_IPTV/Playlists/OttClub/
M-x C-x C-f
Press "c"
result:
press "cr"
result:
As you can see Emacs change folder to d:/personal
I ...
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Emacs flashes when changing buffer with `ido-switch-buffer`
When I change buffer via ido-switch-buffer and enter a python buffer my entire Emacs flashes visually for a second. If I handle other files the same way, it does not. What can be the reason for that? ...
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ido mode keeps suggesting mismatching buffer name
Here is the relevant part of my configuration file:
(require 'ido)
(setq ido-enable-flex-matching t)
(setq ido-everywhere t)
(setq ido-auto-merge-work-directories-length -1)
(ido-mode 1)
The problem ...
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How to stop ido-find-file/ido-switch-buffer prioritising the current buffer/file?
For example, if I have a Test.cpp and a Test.h and one of them is open, ido-find-file will often suggest the already-open one first if I type "Test". Likewise when both are open and the current buffer ...
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migrated from emacs 25 to 26.1: cannot force find-file/counsel-projectile-find-file to always open buffer in current window
Recently I migrated from emacs 25 to 26.1. Before I reached the window behaviour, where I could always open a file at the window at point.
The most simple case to illustrate undesired behaviour: I ...
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How select and kill desire many buffers in ido mode?
Emacs 26.1. ido, smex
If I want to kill one buffer I use command C-x k
Here result:
As result I can kill ONE desire buffer.
But suppose I need to kill the next buffers:
build.gradle, approfile....
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What does 'ido-everywhere' actually do?
When reading about ido, we are instructed to add this to .emacs:
(ido-everywhere t)
The doc says that it Toggle use of Ido for all buffer/file reading.
What does it mean? Everything seems to work ...
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Ido - how autocomplete everything?
Emacs 26.1
I use ido mode with same.
It is work nice.
But I need ido interactively autocomplete for :
bookmarks
shell history commands
Is it possible?
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ido, smex , candidates: show directories with different color
emacs 26.1 , windows 10, ido mode, smex package
M-x map
And here result:
smex show all candidates content text map
Nice. It's work fine.
But second candidates (mappings) is a directory. Rest of ...
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Recentf buffer is not interactively
windows 10, emacs 26.1
I use ido mode.
in my init.el
(require 'ido)
(require 'ido-vertical-mode)
(ido-use-virtual-buffers t)
(ido-mode 1)
(ido-vertical-mode 1)
(setq ido-vertical-define-keys 'C-n-...
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Icicle: After load icicles the ido mode is gone?
windows 10, emacs 26.1, icicles
Before Icicles when I type C-x C-f is show list of folders/files in ido mode. And it's very comfortable for me.
But after I install Icicles and turn on icy-mode the ...
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ido-enabled find-file does not match an existing file name when I yank file name and directory
I enabled IDO mode in my emacs (version 25.2.1, Linux) and now I am trying to open a file.
I am in the directory ~/foo .
The file is ~/foo/baz/bar.cpp and it does exist.
I have baz/bar.cpp in my ...
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How to get vanilla find-file in Spacemacs
Even when i M-x find-file I get the Helm stuff.
I usally also want that, it's just with some Tramp stuff I think there are Problems.
How to get the plain old find-files from vanilla emacs in ...
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`Ido-completing-read` word by word in the minibuffer
I'd like to use something like ido-completing-read in the minibuffer, but on a per-word basis. Here is an example. If I provide a list ("tag:important " "tag:work" "subject" "from"), I'd like to be ...
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Can counsel functions use ido-flex style matching?
I've gotten so used to (setq ido-enable-flex-matching t) that I really notice its absence in various counsel-FOO functions.
Is there a way to turn on flex matching for counsel? I haven’t been able ...
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When using C-x C-f turn off the suggestions
When i do C-x C-f to create a new file in the directory A, if emacs finds another file in another directory (say B) with exact same name, in the mini-buffer it changes the path to the other existing ...
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Emacs - suppress Completion Buffer
In Emacs, I don't want the *Completions* buffer to pop up, even when I press tab to autocomplete in the minibuffer and there are multiple results.
It's distracting and jarring.
How can I do this?
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How to exclude bookmarks from ido virtual buffers?
I just put (setq ido-use-virtual-buffers t) in my init file. It seems ido virtual buffers includes my bookmarks after I use bookmark-jump.
How could I make ido virtual buffers only includes my ...
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IDO rebind C-j to C-<RET>
How to set it?
I tried
(add-hook 'ido-setup-hook
(lambda ()
(local-set-key (kbd "C-<RET>") 'ido-select-text)))
and
(define-key ido-common-completion-map (kbd "C-<...
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IDO mode: How to go to beginning of line in minibuffer?
When using IDO mode when I start searching for files it always begins in the working directory of my current file.
Usually I like this, however, if I want to search in a significantly different ...
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magit + ido: do not offer tags in completing read?
Q: how can I get magit + ido to ignore tags when checking out a branch?
I'm using magit + ido. When I go to check out a branch, ido
helpfully gives me the names of all existing branches, but it also
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is there some sort of namespace(or filter) for files and buffers per frame available?
Using emacs in daemon mode is fine, because you only pay startup time once. But after a while the buffer and file list is getting filled. So is there a way to see only files which belong to the actual ...
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Edit org-mode tags using ido or ivy completion
I'd like to try a different method of specifying tags than the built-in single character codes. How can I tag headings using ido or ivy completion?
I think I would like at least two commands:
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distinguish ido/ivy's virtual-buffers with equal names using directory?
I really like the ido-use-virtual-buffers/ivy-use-virtual-buffers features, but unfortunately if you have five files named style.css in different projects, it is less useful. With already-opened ...
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