From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: making iswitchb the default Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 14:14:36 +0100 Organization: Integra SP Ltd Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <407E8ABC.9060807@gnu.org> References: <16510.30368.995782.116516@bushmills.inf.ed.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1082038278 11589 80.91.224.253 (15 Apr 2004 14:11:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 14:11:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: John Wiegley , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 15 16:11:06 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BE7a6-0000VZ-00 for ; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 16:11:06 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BE7a5-0004jU-00 for ; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 16:11:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BE76n-0006z6-N1 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 09:40:49 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BE75g-0006jl-L3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 09:39:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BE70I-00051o-Dn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 09:34:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [209.61.173.204] (helo=integrasp.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BE6oS-0002it-UE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 09:21:53 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 25392 invoked from network); 15 Apr 2004 13:00:39 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO ntserver.integrasp.com) (217.207.198.106) by 66.216.96.43 with SMTP; 15 Apr 2004 13:00:39 -0000 Original-Received: from gnu.org (altiojr.altio.com [192.168.111.196]) by ntserver.integrasp.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id 2CQ68Z7Y; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 14:14:36 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-gb, en, ja Original-To: Stephen Eglen In-Reply-To: <16510.30368.995782.116516@bushmills.inf.ed.ac.uk> X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:21691 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:21691 Stephen Eglen wrote: > These are good reasons why iswitchb should not be default behaviour to > replace C-x b. However I hope you have not found bugs in iswitchb. > To quote the top of the Commentary: > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ;; As you type in a substring, the list of buffers currently matching > ;; the substring is displayed as you type. The list is ordered so > ;; that the most recent buffers visited come at the start of the list. > ;; The buffer at the start of the list will be the one visited when > ;; you press return. By typing more of the substring, the list is > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > So, first off, the completions buffer is just showing you buffer names > matching the current substring you have typed. First off I do not see a Completions buffer, only after I type TAB. I get the same result on 2 computers running Windows 2000 and Windows XP with current CVS. I also get the same result in 21.3 on the computer I have in front of me now (with -q --no-site-file). Perhaps it is a bug that is specific to Windows, or the setting of completion-ignore-case. > Second, if you type > the full name of a buffer and hit return, usually (but not always, as > the *cvs*, *cvs<2>* example demonstrates) you should get the desired > buffer. Certainly it should not be a random buffer! If you still > find that, let me know as this is definitely a bug. I always seem to get the most recently selected buffer (ie, the one I would get with "C-x b RET" with default settings), regardless of what I type.