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From: Vladimir Nikishkin <lockywolf@gmail.com>
To: "Kévin Le Gouguec" <kevin.legouguec@gmail.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, 65905@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#65905: 30.0.50; Consider changing info buffer names to info<(org)> rather than info<3>
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2023 10:11:55 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ttrxzek4.fsf@laptop.lockywolf.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874jjx94eo.fsf@gmail.com>


Kévin Le Gouguec <kevin.legouguec@gmail.com> writes:

> Speaking for myself: "C-x b PATTERN TAB" is kind of ingrained in my
> muscle memory to switch back to all sorts of buffers I know are open.
> So my brain turns "Switch back to that Info buffer for the FOO manual"
> into "C-x b info TAB", then I stare blankly at the "*info<N>*"
> candidates for a couple of seconds, and pick one at random.

Exactly!

> Point taken re. C-h R (which even limits completion to opened manuals
> with C-u, neat), though switching buffers with C-x b is such a generic
> action that I perform dozens of times an hour without thinking twice,
> that I suspect stopping myself from C-x b'ing just for Info buffers is
> going to be hard.

C-u C-h R ??? I didn't know about this behaviour of the prefix argument!
It does make things simpler, although really, I think that just adding a
call to (rename-buffer) at the end of 'info-display-manual would not be
that bad.


-- 
Your sincerely,
Vladimir Nikishkin (MiEr, lockywolf)
(Laptop)





  reply	other threads:[~2023-09-14  2:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-09-13  4:09 bug#65905: 30.0.50; Consider changing info buffer names to info<(org)> rather than info<3> Vladimir Nikishkin
2023-09-13 12:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-13 14:04   ` Vladimir Nikishkin
2023-09-13 14:57     ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-13 15:07       ` Vladimir Nikishkin
2023-09-13 19:09         ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-14  1:13           ` Vladimir Nikishkin
2023-09-13 20:58       ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2023-09-14  2:11         ` Vladimir Nikishkin [this message]
2023-09-14  5:59         ` Eli Zaretskii

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