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I use ido mode. Here is how I set in .emacs

(require 'ido) (setq ido-enable-flex-matching t) (setq ido-everywhere t) (ido-mode t)

When I open a file, I do C-x C-f my_file and if it doesn't exist in current directory, emacs will try to search for it in other recent used directories in about a second. However, most of the time I was just trying to create new files. I had to type the file name really fast and then C-j to confirm it. How can I stop ido from doing this?

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  • alias 'open new file' as some key other then C-x C-f (M-x find-file is the right name of the action) Commented Aug 1, 2013 at 6:00
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    @user2141046 @woodings From ido-find-file you can just hit C-x C-f again to drop down into the traditional find-file interface Commented Aug 1, 2013 at 6:02
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    @assem I don't want to fall back to normal find-file. I need ido but not search in other directories. Commented Aug 1, 2013 at 6:05
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    @assem It's just C-f. Commented Aug 1, 2013 at 6:16
  • @abo-abo oh, yes indeed it is, thanks Commented Aug 1, 2013 at 10:54

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The following will completely disable the feature:

(setq ido-auto-merge-work-directories-length -1)

I've never seen any value in it, so disabling it completely might make sense for a lot of people.

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M-x customize-variable ido-auto-merge-work-directories-length
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Here is another option using Ido:

  1. Type C-x C-f as usual.
  2. Find the directory you want to create the new file in using Ido search.
  3. At any moment type C-f again, and Emacs will go back to the old find-file functionality.

You can then type the file name you want and Emacs will create a new buffer. So, if you type C-x C-f C-f file_name RET it will create a buffer called file_name temporarily in the current directory.

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I found an easy solution:

(setq ido-auto-merge-delay-time 9)

The time here is in seconds. I could set a very large number to completely disable this feature.

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or set ido-auto-merge-work-directories-length to -1 to disable
@woodings, this problem really annoyed me for a while when I use ido, finally, I decided to search the solution. Before I got this page, I found that when you using ido, you can just use C-f to go back to normal mode instead of ido, but your solution seems better. Thank you!

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