As all Emacs users know, the shortcut Ctrl + x Ctrl + f opens a file. It's pretty neat with lots of shortcuts and Tab completion.
Today, I found a great improvement over find-file, namely
ido-find-file. Lots of people rave about helm-find-file, but it
doesn't allow me to Tab complete may way down the directory
tree and that just drives me nuts! ido-find-file on the other hand,
works pretty much as the traditional find-file, but enhances it by
fuzzy matching, vertical menu (thanks to ido-vertical-mode) and
different colour coding of files directories:
