From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#9591: 24.0.50; buffer name completion Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2011 10:05:02 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87r5356aqu.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <83bou2edjt.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1317477967 1230 80.91.229.12 (1 Oct 2011 14:06:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2011 14:06:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 9591@debbugs.gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 01 16:05:59 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RA0CR-0005iz-7L for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Oct 2011 16:05:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42298 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RA0CQ-0000kH-MG for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Oct 2011 10:05:54 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:56915) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RA0CN-0000kA-Fm for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Oct 2011 10:05:52 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RA0CM-0000AK-Dm for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Oct 2011 10:05:51 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:47369) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RA0CM-0000AA-CG for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Oct 2011 10:05:50 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RA0DW-0007F0-1h for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Oct 2011 10:07:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2011 14:07:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 9591 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 9591-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B9591.131747798127785 (code B ref 9591); Sat, 01 Oct 2011 14:07:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 9591) by debbugs.gnu.org; 1 Oct 2011 14:06:21 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RA0Cq-0007E6-JR for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 01 Oct 2011 10:06:21 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RA0Cn-0007Dy-CG for 9591@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 01 Oct 2011 10:06:18 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RA0Ba-0005a5-Gq; Sat, 01 Oct 2011 10:05:02 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Fri, 30 Sep 2011 15:39:32 -0400) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2011 10:07:02 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:52041 Archived-At: I guess we could provide an ad-hoc completion style for buffers, but that's kind of ugly: completion styles are supposed to be agnostic to the underlying completion table and vice-versa. For common UI features in Emacs, convenience is more important than uniformity. This is one of them. Space at the start of a buffer name has always had special treatment in several ways; turning off the special treatment for completion is simply a bug. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use free telephony http://directory.fsf.org/category/tel/