Ido

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Ido - Interactively do things is a very convenient way to find files and switch buffers.

Ido
Description Interactive Do MiniBuffer Enhancement
Author name of author
Maintainer FSF
Source http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/lisp/ido.el
Part of Emacs yes

Basic setup

(ido-mode)
(ido-everywhere 1)

Helpful keybindings

[C-s]
Move to next ido suggestion.
[C-r]
Move to previous ido suggestion.

Common Customization

Enable Fuzzy Matching

(setq ido-enable-flex-matching t)

See Also

Project Pages

Tutorial Pages

Emacs as commit message editor
Tips for setting up Emacs as Bazaar commit editor.