From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: rename-buffer and ido-everythwere Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 02:12:35 +0200 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <871w9s4vpo.fsf@jurta.org> References: <8763z5pbxz.fsf@kfs-lx.testafd.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1197418561 24975 80.91.229.12 (12 Dec 2007 00:16:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:16:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: William Xu , emacs-devel@gnu.org, "Kim F. Storm" To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 12 01:16:10 2007 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 1J2FGk-000602-Lj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 01:16:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J2FGS-0005qk-NU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 19:15:52 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J2FEx-0005KO-6R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 19:14:19 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J2FEv-0005KC-7O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 19:14:18 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J2FEv-0005K9-1i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 19:14:17 -0500 Original-Received: from relay02.kiev.sovam.com ([62.64.120.197]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J2FEu-0000yH-Mb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 19:14:16 -0500 Original-Received: from [83.170.232.243] (helo=smtp.svitonline.com) by relay02.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1J2FEp-000Lay-Ac; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 02:14:13 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Tue, 11 Dec 2007 09:57:08 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanner-Signature: b36477657b07eb27dc67b07df918f397 X-DrWeb-checked: yes X-SpamTest-Envelope-From: juri@jurta.org X-SpamTest-Group-ID: 00000000 X-SpamTest-Header: Not Detected X-SpamTest-Info: Profiles 1872 [Dec 11 2007] X-SpamTest-Info: helo_type=3 X-SpamTest-Info: {HEADERS: header Content-Type found without required header Content-Transfer-Encoding} X-SpamTest-Method: none X-SpamTest-Rate: 19 X-SpamTest-Status: Not detected X-SpamTest-Status-Extended: not_detected X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 3.0.0 [0255], KAS30/Release X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 4.8-5.1 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.3) 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:85071 Archived-At: > Maybe a better solution (not specific to ido) is to replace > `read-buffer' with `read-string'. As its documentation says, `read-buffer' is supposed to read an arbitrary buffer name. In practice, it seems it can read only a name to switch the buffer to. OTOH, `rename-buffer' doesn't need the full functionality of `read-buffer': buffer name completion and the default name in the prompt are no needed, but the default accessible via M-n for editing and its history list are needed, and `read-string' supports this. Fixed in CVS. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/