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Asked: 2026-05-26T08:28:55+00:00

[Tab] – display possible completion in a buffer (or open the file or go

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[Tab] - display possible completion in a buffer (or open the file or go down the directory if there is only one possible completion).

This piece of writing came from the emacs wiki on ido mode.

In my emacs 24.0.50 nightly build from May 5th, on OSX the functionality I had was that when pressing TAB it used to cycle through my choices. Now, if i hit tab, and there is more then one file matching, it pulls up a buffer with the choices.

This is annoying and basically, i want my old tab complete (ala bash) style back.

Anyone know how to fix this? I can map the tab key, but to what?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I think TAB is doing what it supposed to do. However I use SPC to select the next match.
    you can customize the following to use TAB instead.

    ;;; additional keys (copied from source file)
(defun ido-my-keys ()
  "Add my keybindings for ido."
  (define-key ido-completion-map " " 'ido-next-match))  ; use space for next match
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