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From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: 9591@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9591: 24.0.50; buffer name completion
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2011 21:04:19 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mxdtl9f0.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1R7c13-0004sx-Dn@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Sat, 24 Sep 2011 19:52:17 -0400")

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

>   Another fix might be for C-x k to use confirm-nonexistent-file-or-buffer
>   so that after you type TAB, Emacs prompts with [Confirm] when you try to
>   exit the minibuffer immediately.
>
> How would that change it?  The buffer ` *message-viewer RMAIL*' did
> exist.

It would probably have stopped you from accidentally entering the
internal buffer by typing RET quickly after TAB.

I agree though that the completion behavior is a bit screwy: typing TAB
into the empty minibuffer does not bring up the hidden buffers in the
completion list, whereas the more agressive partial-completion method
does bring them up.





  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-09-25  1:04 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 [this message]
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
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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