From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Buffer names with R2L characters Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 09:26:11 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <87aadbve5o.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <838vswwk2b.fsf@gnu.org> <834o3kw6qg.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1308641716 10167 80.91.229.12 (21 Jun 2011 07:35:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 07:35:16 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 21 09:35:08 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QYvUJ-0006ko-6y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Jun 2011 09:35:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50675 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QYvUH-0002B7-E9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Jun 2011 03:35:05 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:44834) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QYvLu-0008Gh-7t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jun 2011 03:26:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QYvLs-0007TH-O4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jun 2011 03:26:26 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:57305) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QYvLs-0007TC-9S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jun 2011 03:26:24 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QYvLr-00035w-1a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jun 2011 09:26:23 +0200 Original-Received: from p508edbd9.dip.t-dialin.net ([80.142.219.217]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 21 Jun 2011 09:26:23 +0200 Original-Received: from dak by p508edbd9.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 21 Jun 2011 09:26:23 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p508edbd9.dip.t-dialin.net X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:cdiRjKp1NIg1hH+T8k2rZdiYLTg= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:140763 Archived-At: Miles Bader writes: > Eli Zaretskii writes: >> I don't think we should wait for such a feature and in the meantime >> display "12>FEDCBA>" as buffer name. I'd like to have a solution, >> even if an interim one, for Emacs 24.1. > > Do you think this case will be common enough in practice to be worth > worrying about in the short term? > > In my experience redundant buffer/file names are not very common for > _arbitrary_ files. Rather, they tend to occur with very specific > names where the name is not chosen by the user, but rather is due to > some external standard -- e.g. "Makefile", "*shell*", "README". I have them quite often when comparing/merging versions of files. -- David Kastrup