Re: ido.el patch: don't automatically overwrite file on TAB

[Kim F. Storm]

Karl Chen <address@hidden> writes:

> I find annoying the following behavior: when using ido-write-file,
> pressing TAB on a substring that uniquely matches an existing file
> will complete the filename and overwrite it without confirmation.
> 
> (Usually when I do [ido-]write-file I mean to make a copy as a new
> file.  Overwriting existing files based on a substring or
> fuzzy+regexp matching is dangerous.)
> 
> The patch below will change the default behavior so that if you
> mean to overwrite an existing file you need to press TAB RET.
> 
> 
> If this change to the default behavior of ido-write-file is not
> acceptable please still accept the rest of the patch (ido-complete
> and ido-exit-on-unique-tab-completion), because otherwise it is
> very difficult to modify the behavior even through advice.

I will add your changes to ido.  Thanks you.

PS: You have not signed papers for contributing to emacs, but this
change (and a previous change that I used) is still small enough to
not require papers.  However, further changes from you will require
that you sign papers.


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