From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 9598@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9598: 24.0.50; completion goes too far
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 06:42:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1R88de-0003Ia-Is@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvipogauvq.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Sun, 25 Sep 2011 22:45:50 -0400)
> When in the *mail* buffer, I found that C-x b *ma TAB offered me
[...]
> and did not mention *mail* at all.
That's on purpose: C-x b is about moving to another buffer, so it
explicitly excludes the current buffer.
TAB excludes the current buffer from completion, so that you can
more often get a useful completion result.
However, listing the available completions is a different issue.
Omitting the current buffer there is not beneficial; it only gives
the user less useful information. There, the current buffer
should be included.
Basically, try-complete should exclude the current buffer
but all-completions should include it.
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-26 10:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-25 17:34 bug#9598: 24.0.50; completion goes too far Richard Stallman
2011-09-25 18:47 ` Drew Adams
2011-09-26 1:00 ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-26 1:53 ` Drew Adams
2011-09-26 6:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-26 10:42 ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-26 11:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-26 21:12 ` Richard Stallman
2022-02-06 0:05 ` bug#12916: 24.2; Completion for "C-x b" does not include current buffer Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-26 2:45 ` bug#9598: 24.0.50; completion goes too far Stefan Monnier
2011-09-26 10:42 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2011-09-27 2:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-27 16:34 ` Richard Stallman
2011-10-11 2:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-11 22:01 ` Richard Stallman
2016-01-31 14:30 ` bug#9598: Status: C-x b completion should also display current buffer Marcin Borkowski
2016-01-31 16:18 ` bug#12916: " Drew Adams
2016-01-31 16:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
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