bug#2853: 23.0.92; enabling uniquify is weird

bug#2853: 23.0.92; enabling uniquify is weird

[Miles Bader]

When one wants to turn on a user-level feature, I think it's usual that
one can do either M-x foo-mode, or M-x customize-variable RET foo-blah RET.

Uniquify, though doesn't seem to support either of these methods -- there
is no uniquify-mode, and customize-variable does not know about
`uniquify-buffer-name-style' unless the user manually loads the package.

There's a function `toggle-uniquify-buffer-names', but it seems vaguely
non-standard, and is apparently intended mostly for the menu-bar.

I'm not sure exactly what the right thing to do is, but I think at
least, we should ensure that uniquify-buffer-name-style is somehow
autoloaded so customize-variable knows about it...

-Miles



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In GNU Emacs 23.0.92.2 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.16.0)
 of 2009-04-02 on dhlpc061
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10599902
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: ja_JP.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=SCIM
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Emacs-Lisp

Minor modes in effect:
  diff-auto-refine-mode: t
  shell-dirtrack-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  recentf-mode: t
  rcirc-track-minor-mode: t
  minibuffer-electric-default-mode: t
  display-time-mode: t
  desktop-save-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  global-auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  temp-buffer-resize-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
SPC n SPC n n SPC <backspace> n n n n n n n n n n n 
n n n n n SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC n i SPC SPC SPC SPC 
SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC n n n n n n n n n n n n n n 
q <escape> C-g <escape> x r c i SPC <return> C-x b 
<return> C-c C-SPC C-x 1 C-c C-SPC C-c C-SPC C-c C-SPC 
C-c C-SPC n i SPC n n SPC n SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC 
n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n i P l n n n SPC 
n n n n C-x d = n i SPC n n n n n n n n i SPC SPC SPC 
SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC n t SPC SPC C-x d M-v <prior> 
C-x b C-g t f C-c C-y C-p C-SPC C-u C-n C-n C-n C-n 
C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-p C-p C-p C-p 
C-p C-p C-w C-n C-n C-n C-n C-SPC C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n 
C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-w C-o C-n C-o I f 
SPC i t ' s SPC e m a c s , SPC t r y <escape> x u 
n i q SPC C-g C-h v u n i q SPC ? b u f SPC <return> 
C-x n C-x C-v ~ / . c u s t o m <return> C-s u n i 
q u C-a C-SPC C-n C-n <escape> w C-s C-s C-s C-s C-s 
C-s C-s C-a C-x b <return> <tab> <tab> <tab> <return> 
<tab> <tab> <S-iso-lefttab> <return> <escape> x r e 
p o SPC r SPC <return>

Recent messages:
x*DING*  [2 times]
Mark saved where search started
mouse-2, RET: find variable's definition
mouse-2, RET: describe this function
mouse-2, RET: describe this variable
mouse-2, RET: find variable's definition
mouse-2, RET: customize variable
mouse-2, RET: find variable's definition
Auto-saving...done
Making completion list...

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bug#2853: 23.0.92; enabling uniquify is weird

[Glenn Morris]

Version: 24.4

I think this is no longer an issue now that uniquify is preloaded and
enabled by default. It is simply a feature that is always on, and you
can customize it by setting uniquify-buffer-name-style. (The traditional
<1>, <2> can be viewed as just another form of uniquification.)