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> Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 13:03:00 +0100
> From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
> 
> I suspected that might be the case, and I guess that for advanced users 
> once they get used to it, it might be faster. But for a new user, such 
> behaviour is surprising, so I would not recommend ido to be enabled by 
> default.

What IMHO _would_ be useful and unsurprising to newbies is a mode that
drops a menu of buffer names and allows to select one by either a
mouse click or arrow keys and RET.  Such a mode, if it existed, could
indeed be enabled by default.