I was really impressed with it just this morning. I've recently moved to Emacs and just couldn't work out how to create a new file. Everything just said it shou

I was really impressed with it just this morning. I've recently moved to Emacs and just couldn't work out how to create a new file. Everything just said it should be C-x f. But this just didn't work. Get into work today where my default search engine in DDG. Thought I'd just have another search, type in "emacs create new file" and there right away in the quick info box is : Try: C-x C-f C-f It should kick you out of ido mode into "normal" find file mode Ah ha.. There's my answer. I have Ido mode enabled. A similar search in google has a general (and useless) How to use emacs page as it's first link. The actual answer was a stack overflow question that came up second which I'd just missed before..