Not selecting what emacs ido is suggesting? [duplicate]

Answer 1

Another way of avoiding the completion proposed by ido is to validate your entry using C-j instead of RET

Example, in a case where file foobar already exists and you want to create file foo

1. C-xC-f (find-file)

   Find file: ~/{.emacs.d | ... | foobar} 
   

2. foo (ido narrows options)

   Find file: ~/foo[foobar]
   

3. C-j (ido-select-text)

   This creates file foo instead of accepting ido's foobar completion