From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: position on changing defaults? Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:06:50 -0800 Message-ID: <001301c8833e$191e5b50$0600a8c0@us.oracle.com> References: <7dbe73ed0803091608q7fdf4bb4vf9688ef069c8cff1@mail.gmail.com> <200803110100.m2B10LWH007067@localhost.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1205215759 2517 80.91.229.12 (11 Mar 2008 06:09:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 06:09:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "'Xavier Maillard'" , "'Mathias Dahl'" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 11 07:09:42 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JYxgB-0004VV-Ox for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 07:09:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JYxfd-0002iU-Es for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 02:09:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JYxfZ-0002i1-GG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 02:09:01 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JYxfU-0002hn-Ui for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 02:09:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JYxfU-0002hk-NF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 02:08:56 -0400 Original-Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JYxfP-00022n-Ty; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 02:08:52 -0400 Original-Received: from agmgw2.us.oracle.com (agmgw2.us.oracle.com [152.68.180.213]) by rgminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.6) with ESMTP id m2B68eBk029624; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:08:41 -0600 Original-Received: from acsmt350.oracle.com (acsmt350.oracle.com [141.146.40.150]) by agmgw2.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.0/Switch-3.2.0) with ESMTP id m2A4rcZw026695; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:08:40 -0600 Original-Received: from inet-141-146-46-1.oracle.com by acsmt350.oracle.com with ESMTP id 3607600681205215620; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:07:00 -0700 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/141.144.72.72) by bhmail.oracle.com (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:06:59 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <200803110100.m2B10LWH007067@localhost.localdomain> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 Thread-Index: AciDGDO0QXEfSMd1R/mLFuCyggQ3vgAJVfPg X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:92126 Archived-At: > I find iswitchb and anything very convenient as they both match > anywhere inside a string. I hate needing to type that > leading `*' when going to buffers which such names. > > I find it counter intuitive too. Ideally, one would just have to > type sorted _but_ not consecutive letters to reach the buffer of > choice. > > For example, typing fb would automatically restrict the buffer > list to candidates such as *foobar*, fb, fabrice, ... FWIW, you can do that using either Icicles or Ido. Icicles calls it "scatter" matching. Ido calls it "flex" matching. http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/Icicles_-_Fuzzy_Completion#toc2