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: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:09:09 -0500 Message-ID: References: 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 1231359831 27624 80.91.229.12 (7 Jan 2009 20:23:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 20:23:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, bug-submit-list@donarmstrong.com, 1800@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com To: Stefan Monnier , 1800@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 07 21:25:01 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 1LKexR-000501-R5 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:24:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47917 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LKewC-0006xC-1y for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:23:36 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LKew7-0006w5-9v for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:23:31 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LKew5-0006uE-6r for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:23:30 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49828 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LKew4-0006ty-NF for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:23:28 -0500 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu ([138.23.92.77]:50930) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LKew3-0006SS-Bf for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:23:27 -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 n07KNOH9005414; Wed, 7 Jan 2009 12:23:24 -0800 Original-Received: (from debbugs@localhost) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id n07KK5DD004398; Wed, 7 Jan 2009 12:20:05 -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: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:20:05 +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.12313590312942 (code B ref -1); Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:20:05 +0000 Original-Received: (at submit) by emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; 7 Jan 2009 20:10:31 +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 n07KAMx6002922; Wed, 7 Jan 2009 12:10:24 -0800 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1LKeiD-0003vj-Vw; Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:09:10 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:14:10 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Resent-Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:23:30 -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:23897 gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs:23659 Archived-At: 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". That too would more or less solve the problem.