Opening a new file problem

[johannspies]

According to the documentation:

To open a new file you can proceed as usual, with the C-x C-f keystrokes, you would see the ido-mode prompt with fuzzy completion enabled.

This 'fuzzy completion' is making it difficult to open a new file in a directory full of python files. At the moment I cannot open a new file. If I type in the new file name with a .py extension and press enter, the first file in the list is opened. If I put a character like _ after .py it will open the file, but when I want to to save it as .py it again wants to overwrite some other python file in the directory.

How can I disable this irritating 'fuzzy completion'?

[johannspies]

I have removed all references to epy in my .emacs and that stopped this behaviour. I don't know what else was disabled by doing this though.

[gabrielelanaro]

Hi! There are several ways to solve your problem!

1) To open a new file (in the "fuzzy thing"), simply type the name of your file and press C-j, this will create a new file with that name 2) Just type C-f to temporary fall back on the normal emacs find file 3) at the end of your .emacs, put (ido-mode nil) and this will completely disable the fuzzy thing

[johannspies]

There are several ways to solve your problem!

Thanks Gabriel!

Regards Johann

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