What You Can Learn From ido.el (Emacs vs. TextMate) [video]

http://www.vimeo.com/1013263

by d0mine • 18 years ago

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ahold• 18 years ago

Ah, Stuart showed us his typing abilities

This just makes me feel like I really need to work on becoming a more advanced user of emacs. I don't utilize the built in power of emacs nearly enough.

zenspider2• 18 years ago

I'm still not sold on ido... I'm trying it out again, but thus far there are enough annoyances that I don't think I can activate it full-time. I may, however, use their completing read function standalone tho for other things I do.

So far, I've found that autotest.el + file-cache + ffap + some advice for ffap (see my emacswiki page) does 80-90% of what I need on a daily basis.

litewulf2• 18 years ago

Out of curiosity, what are the annoyances you have with it?

yummyfajitas• 18 years ago

I tried ido a few times, but never really liked it. I felt like it was jumping ahead of me, often in directions I didn't want to go.

I like Icicles much better. It offers lots of features like ido, but I actually need to press a key before they happen.

http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/Icicles

d0mine• 18 years ago

ido has advantage that it is included in Emacs22 (no third-party packages required)

litewulf2• 18 years ago

As a counterpoint, I love ido, and it makes using the commandline so frustrating.

99% of the time it somehow seems to have read my mind, so I can tab my way to happiness.

ken• 18 years ago

I was a little disappointed he never touched on the best use of fuzzy matching: function names. Lisp would probably look like APL or Perl if we actually had to type "with-open-file" instead of just "w o f TAB RET".

kylec• 18 years ago

Interesting. I suppose we can, in part, blame Arc's brevity on the fact that Paul Graham uses vi:

http://paulgraham.com/pfaq.html

What You Can Learn From ido.el (Emacs vs. TextMate) [video]

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