From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
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 01:12:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sknwkov4.fsf@jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <007301c9704f$3a550ef0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Tue, 6 Jan 2009 14:36:32 -0800")
> And I don't think we should adopt the behavior that if there are no matches
> under some interpretation of the input then we should try another interpretation
> (and another,...). That's exactly the strategy behind the "annoyance". It can be
> useful to get feedback that your input doesn't match.
>
> To me, the thing to do is keep this new behavior as an optional feature, but not
> make it the default behavior. People who opt in for this will know what they're
> getting, and no one will be annoyed/surprised.
>
> In a future release, if people generally prefer the optional behavior, it could
> become the new default. It doesn't make sense to change the default behavior now
> to something that (a) not many users have even tried, (b) was never even
> discussed at emacs-devel, and (c) is hardly documented. (The novelty and
> sometime annoyance/surprise is the main disqualifier, of course, not the lack of
> adequate doc and discussion.)
There is no harm in a feature if it has no annoyance/surprise. You said
in http://emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1757
With the traditional behavior, if there are no buffers
with prefix `*', you are told so immediately: [No match].
With the new, partial-completion behavior, you are given possible
completions that do not complete `*' in the normal way
(as a literal prefix).
So implementing a message "[No match, type TAB again for * as a wildcard]"
will keep the traditional behavior just as you want.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-06 23:12 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
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 [this message]
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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