Abo-abo posts that he has made some usability enhancements in Ivy directory handling. If you’re like me, Ivy is a fundamental part of your workflow. As abo-abo says, the original idea was simple: provide a list of strings and a way of choosing one of those strings. Of course things quickly got more complex. One source of problems is dealing with directories.
The first example is dealing with file name completion. As you’re traversing down the path of directories, you need to select the proper one and move on to the next but you can’t just accept the directory because that would open the directory in dired instead of allowing you to choose the next directory in the path. Abo-abo solved that problem simply enough by using Ctrl+j to select that directory but keeping going.
The next problem is directory creation. That’s harder because Ivy couldn’t tell the difference between a new file and a new directory so he used a special key binding for that case. Recently he dug into the dired-create-directory and make-directory code and discovered that they pass Ivy a unique prompt that he could use to ascertain the user’s intention. Now it works the same as with files and there’s one less key sequence you have to remember.
He also fixed a long-standing annoyance involving the dired-dwim-target variable. You can read his post to see what the problem was and how he fixed it if you use that variable.
As we’ve come to expect from abo-abo, Ivy just keeps getting better and better. I can’t imagine how I got along without it. If you’re an Ivy user, be sure to read abo-abo’s post to see what’s new.