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Ido provides a very convenient way to find files and switch buffers in Emacs.

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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. …
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`Ido-completing-read` word by word in the minibuffer

So you won't use exactly the keystrokes above, but it won't be too far since you will hit "tab" when you want to see what IDO can give you, and then you hit "Enter" when you are happy with the IDO proposition … Set 'even-if-one-solution' to 't' if you want to run ido even when only one solution is available." …
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read-file-name: input an non-existing file with a default name in ido

I needed to use initial-value instead of default file name: (read-file-name "Picture name:" "/tmp" nil nil "myedfault.png")
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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 way compatible with ido) However … because the file does not (yet) exist, ido does not prefill the file name, it's like if no file were specified: How could I make it work for ido as well? …
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