Re: What is the most useful potential feature which Emacs lacks?

[Arthur Miller]

Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org> writes:

> On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 09:45:28PM +0300, Dmitry Gutov wrote:
>> On 28.05.2020 20:19, Karl Fogel wrote:
>> > It would only do this the first time a user does `find-file' on a 
>> > directory?  Or would it be every time?
>> 
>> Someday, we could also turn on fido-mode by default. There, RET means enter
>> a directory. And/or pick the first suggestion.
>> 
>> It's a decent behavior for long-times users as well, since C-j provides an
>> override.
>
> This seems like a reasonable solution to me. Alternatively perhaps we
> just need to sell C-x C-f as "open a file or directory" rather than
> "find a file"?
I think you are spot on there. I don't think many people today think of
directories as just "files", so directory part of "find file" gets lost
for some. BTW, how about selling it as "Find file or directory"?