Emacs FAST file access with ido-mode

Emacs with ido-mode fuzzy matching (or flex matching) makes it incredibly fast to navigate the file system using only the keyboard. But it does far more than that, allowing the emacs pilot to quickly find help, commands, variables and much more. This video shows the finer points of using ido-mode with flex matching.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• emacs
• file
• browsing
• filesystem
• help
• lightning
• fast
• ninja

[ramajajimoro]

Thanks a lot for the video.

I couldn't get flex-matching to work with M-x commands(like you showed for multi-occur" command).

I have the line " '(ido-enable-flex-matching t)" included in my .emacs file.

Is there any other variable that needs to be set to enable this.

[MrKylePoole]

Thanks for the vid. Mind telling me which color theme you are using?

[fatkasuvayu]

ido is well and good, but its quite slow when used for file name completion over tramp, specially if you have lots of files in your directory

[WellingtonGrey]

Thanks for putting this up.  Very helpful.