Re: Assignment of misc packages for emacs

[Richard Stallman]

    > I don't mind having ido as a feature available in Emacs, for whoever
    > wants to use it or enable it, but each specific command that reads a
    > directory name must be consistent with the rest of Emacs.  If you
    > install M-x match (or search-file-tree), please make it use the
    > standard file-name reading interface.

    It does -- unless you enable ido-mode.

If you enable ido-mode, does that affect *all* reading of directory
names in the same way?  That would be the clean thing for it to do.
I guess your new variable is designed to make that possible.