From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Don Armstrong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: iswitchb Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:51:28 -0700 Message-ID: <20080320025128.GB7406@rzlab.ucr.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1205981506 20728 80.91.229.12 (20 Mar 2008 02:51:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 02:51:46 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 20 03:52:15 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 1JcAt4-0007yj-Sq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 03:52:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JcAsU-00064f-NJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:51:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JcAsS-00064X-0t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:51:36 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JcAsP-00064L-Mb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:51:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JcAsP-00064G-EN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:51:33 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu ([138.23.92.77]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JcAsP-0002uW-0I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:51:33 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu (archimedes.ucr.edu [138.23.92.79]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with SMTP id m2K2pvuQ000808 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:51:58 -0700 Original-Received: (nullmailer pid 5729 invoked by uid 1000); Thu, 20 Mar 2008 02:51:28 -0000 Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:93030 Archived-At: On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, paul r wrote: > - what is really helpful in iswitchb in the possibility to enter > any substring of the buffer name to find it, but this could be > implemented into current default switch-to-buffer. What probably should be adjusted here is the ordering when you've typed in the exact name of a buffer; that buffer should just come to the front of the list (with possible exceptions for foo<1> et al?). That way iswitchb will get out of the way of people who expect the old behavoir, but allow people to gradually learn the new behavoir. > - C-s and C-r to cycle through matches are not intuitive enought, > some better idea about how to disambiguate buffer names should be > proposed. This is how most everything does forward and reverse searching, so it's not that unintuitive. Don Armstrong -- "I'm a rational being--of a sort--rational enough, at least, to see the symptoms of insanity around me. And I'm human, the same as the people I think of as victims when my guard drops. It's at least possible I'm even crazier than my fellows, whom I'm tempted to pity. "There seems only one thing to do, and that's get drunk" -- Chad C. Mulligan (John Brunner _Stand On Zanzibar_ p390) http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu