From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: 9591@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9591: 24.0.50; buffer name completion
Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2011 17:15:43 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83bou0dchc.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1RA0Ba-0005a5-Gq@fencepost.gnu.org>
> Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2011 10:05:02 -0400
> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> CC: eliz@gnu.org, 9591@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> I guess we could provide an ad-hoc completion style for buffers, but
> that's kind of ugly: completion styles are supposed to be agnostic to the
> underlying completion table and vice-versa.
>
> For common UI features in Emacs, convenience is more important than
> uniformity. This is one of them. Space at the start of a buffer
> name has always had special treatment in several ways; turning off
> the special treatment for completion is simply a bug.
I think you are, in fact, in agreement with Stefan, who pointed out
that making this special treatment the subject of a special style is
not a good idea.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-01 14:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-24 12:28 bug#9591: 24.0.50; buffer name completion Richard Stallman
2011-09-24 18:44 ` Chong Yidong
2011-09-24 23:52 ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-25 0:19 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-25 8:35 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-09-25 17:34 ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-25 17:52 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-26 1:00 ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-25 18:45 ` Drew Adams
2011-09-25 1:04 ` Chong Yidong
2011-09-25 17:34 ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-29 22:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-29 22:39 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-30 21:03 ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-30 6:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-30 19:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-01 14:05 ` Richard Stallman
2011-10-01 14:15 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2011-10-01 20:54 ` Richard Stallman
2011-10-02 0:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-26 1:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-26 5:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-26 7:56 ` Stephen Berman
2011-09-26 8:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-27 17:45 ` Drew Adams
2011-09-27 18:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
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