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Change number of emacs ido display

I think emacs ido display item number is a little less, how to change number of ido display?

Solution

  • C-h v ido-max-prospects:

    ido-max-prospects is a variable defined in `ido.el'.
Its value is 12

Documentation:
Upper limit of the prospect list if non-zero.
Zero means no limit for the prospect list.
For a long list of prospects, building the full list for the
minibuffer can take a non-negligible amount of time; setting this
variable reduces that time.

You can customize this variable.

    (setq ido-max-prospects 5) ;; show 5 or fewer candidates in ido

    BTW, I found this variable by looking through all the variables in M-x customize-group ido.