How do make `ido-find-file` work for file location with relative path?

Question

Say the current directory is /abc, and I wish I could open /abc/def/file.txt with the following steps:

1. Invoke ido-find-file
2. In the mini-buffer (prompting /abc), I paste (yank) def/file.txt
3. Hit enter.

If it were find-file, it would open file.txt, but not ido-find-file. Any hacking to make ido-find-file follow the behavior of file-file?

Answer 1

This has been wondered before, and this seems to be closest to the solution you're looking for: https://emacs.stackexchange.com/a/5411

Based on your use case, you may be better off using find-file-at-point.