Re: Does anyone really use emacs in terminal?

[Dmitry Gutov]

Steven Degutis <sbdegutis@gmail.com> writes:

> I agree, ido-mode is unbearable in its default state. But with
> ido-vertical-mode it's pretty great:
> https://github.com/rson/ido-vertical-mode.el

a) ido-vertical-mode wastes screen estate (blank space to the right). I
wouldn't want to use that.

b) ido-mode is generally useful, but it makes some trivial operations
harder (like entering a file name of a new file, you have to press C-j
instead of RET). Also, `ido-completing-read''s interface is subtly
incompatible with `completing-read', hence the bag of tricks
`ido-ubiquitous' has to employ.