From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, 1800@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#1800: 23.0.60; Changed meaning of * in buffer name completion
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:54:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fxjwnizs.fsf@jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv63kskrv4.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:14:10 -0500")
>> Trying to switch to a killed buffer that had `*' at the beginning
>> of its name (e.g. *grep*) typing `* g TAB' displays a large list
>> of irrelevant buffer names.
> [...]
>> [No match, type TAB again for * as a wildcard]
>
> Here's another option: only treat * as a wildcard if it doesn't match
> anything existing. I.e. if you have buffers that start with "*", then
> "*g" will not treat the * as a wildcard. To force the use of
> a wildcard, we could let the user type "**g".
It seems unlikely not to have a buffer that starts with "*".
There are always such buffers as *scratch*, *Messages*, *Completions*.
OTOH, "**g" will help, but it has the same drawback as using "\*g"
for a literal character *, i.e. it is not as obvious as using a single *.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-06 22:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2009-01-06 12:31 ` bug#1800: 23.0.60; Changed meaning of * in buffer name completion Richard M Stallman
2009-01-06 19:00 ` Juri Linkov
2009-01-06 22:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-06 22:54 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2009-01-07 5:35 ` Drew Adams
2009-01-07 20:09 ` Richard M Stallman
2009-01-06 22:36 ` Drew Adams
2009-01-06 23:12 ` Juri Linkov
2009-01-07 5:35 ` Drew Adams
2009-01-07 12:07 ` Juri Linkov
2009-01-07 15:56 ` Drew Adams
2009-01-07 16:48 ` Drew Adams
2009-01-07 17:43 ` Juri Linkov
2009-01-07 18:05 ` Drew Adams
2009-01-07 19:30 ` Juri Linkov
2009-01-06 22:59 ` Richard M Stallman
2009-08-15 22:35 ` bug#1800: marked as done (23.0.60; Changed meaning of * in buffer name completion) Emacs bug Tracking System
2009-03-09 21:25 bug#1800: 23.0.60; Changed meaning of * in buffer name completion Xavier Maillard
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