M-x Kelsin

I love Ido mode in emacs. The fuzzy searching works exactly how I want. It automatically works for finding files and switching buffers which is great. Today I finally got it working for bookmarks and recent files.

For bookmarks I found a section on emacs wiki about how to make ido goto a bookmark directory when browsing for files. This isn't quite what I wanted. I wanted to use ido to complete bookmark names to go right to the bookmarks. After finding some example code I came up with this:

(defun bookmark-ido-find-file ()
  "Find a bookmark using Ido."
  (interactive)
  (let ((bm (ido-completing-read "Choose bookmark: "
                                 (bookmark-all-names)
                                 nil t)))
    (when bm
      (bookmark-jump bm))))

Reallyl simple, just bookmark-jump to a bookmark name using bookmark-all-names to pass the names to ido-completing-read.

The next step was to be able to complete on recently seen files. I came up with the following. It's probably not the cleanest or fastest code, but it gets the job done. It lets me complete on the filename (not directories at all) for all recently seen files. I don't know how this behaves when you have files that are named the same, but at the moment this works great.

(defun recentf-ido-find-file ()
  "Find a recent file using Ido."
  (interactive)
  (let* ((files (mapcar '(lambda (file)
                           (cons (file-name-nondirectory file) file))
                        recentf-list))
         (file (cdr (assoc (ido-completing-read "Choose recent file: "
                                                (mapcar 'car files)
                                                nil t)
                           files))))
    (when file
      (find-file file))))