1.2 Working Directories

Working directories are directories where files have most recently been opened. The current directory is inserted at the front of this ido-work-directory-list whenever a file is opened with ido-find-file and other file-related functions.

User Option: ido-max-work-directory-list

This user option specifies maximum number of working directories to record.

User Option: ido-max-dir-file-cache

This user option specifies maximum number of working directories to be cached. This is the size of the cache of file-name-all-completions results. Each cache entry is time stamped with the modification time of the directory. Some systems, like MS-Windows, have unreliable directory modification times, so you may choose to disable caching on such systems, or explicitly refresh the cache contents using the command ido-reread-directory (usually C-l) in the minibuffer.