From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard M Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs Subject: bug#1800: 23.0.60; Changed meaning of * in buffer name completion Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:59:44 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87r63gs1il.fsf@jurta.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org, 1800@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1231284263 15510 80.91.229.12 (6 Jan 2009 23:24:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 23:24:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, bug-submit-list@donarmstrong.com, 1800@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com To: Juri Linkov , 1800@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 07 00:25:33 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LKLId-0002UV-Vt for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:25:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33360 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LKLHO-0004YT-C9 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:24:10 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LKLGo-0004MG-Fe for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:23:34 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LKLGj-0004Jm-VO for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:23:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40143 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LKLGj-0004Jd-Hb for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:23:29 -0500 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu ([138.23.92.77]:38378) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LKLGi-00064H-FJ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:23:29 -0500 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu (rzlab.ucr.edu [127.0.0.1]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id n06NNOhe011667; Tue, 6 Jan 2009 15:23:24 -0800 Original-Received: (from debbugs@localhost) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id n06NA5wW008212; Tue, 6 Jan 2009 15:10:05 -0800 X-Loop: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com Resent-From: Richard M Stallman Resent-To: bug-submit-list@donarmstrong.com Resent-CC: Emacs Bugs Resent-Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:10:05 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com X-Emacs-PR-Message: followup 1800 X-Emacs-PR-Package: emacs X-Emacs-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by submit@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com id=B.12312828686049 (code B ref -1); Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:10:05 +0000 Original-Received: (at submit) by emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; 6 Jan 2009 23:01:08 +0000 X-Spam-Bayes: score:0.5 Bayes not run. spammytokens:Tokens not available. hammytokens:Tokens not available. Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org (fencepost.gnu.org [140.186.70.10]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id n06N0uSe006033; Tue, 6 Jan 2009 15:00:57 -0800 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1LKKtk-0008FG-Jp; Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:59:44 -0500 In-reply-to: <87r63gs1il.fsf@jurta.org> (message from Juri Linkov on Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:00:34 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Resent-Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:23:33 -0500 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:23847 gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs:23642 Archived-At: A better variant is to provide two-step completion. So when there is no buffer matching `*g' literally then display a message like [No match, type TAB again for * as a wildcard] That is a good idea. It would provide the same benefit of the existing feature, but without the inconvenience.