From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: position on changing defaults? Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:44:36 +0100 Message-ID: <87bq5lsfor.fsf@kfs-lx.rd.rdm> References: <200803110100.m2B107k3007035@localhost.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1205232337 23404 80.91.229.12 (11 Mar 2008 10:45:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:45:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stephen Eglen , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Xavier Maillard Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 11 11:46:00 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 1JZ1z1-0004Yy-In for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:45:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JZ1yT-0001rH-3C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 06:44:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JZ1yM-0001pD-0z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 06:44:42 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JZ1yK-0001oF-50 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 06:44:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JZ1yJ-0001o1-To for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 06:44:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-relay.sonofon.dk ([212.88.64.25]) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JZ1yJ-0001NP-DW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 06:44:39 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 65090 invoked from network); 11 Mar 2008 10:44:37 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO kfs-lx.rd.rdm.cua.dk) (213.83.150.21) by 0 with SMTP; 11 Mar 2008 10:44:37 -0000 In-Reply-To: <200803110100.m2B107k3007035@localhost.localdomain> (Xavier Maillard's message of "Tue\, 11 Mar 2008 02\:00\:07 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.92 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 4.6-4.9 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:92146 Archived-At: Xavier Maillard writes: > There are many alternative buffer switching methods, of which mine is > just one {that I hope Richard might one day try!}. > > Just a quick question, I just saw ido-mode mentionned on another > post. I am not an expert but it seems pretty closed to iswitchb. > The question is then simply: why ido-mode and iswitchb and not a > merge of these two packages ? In what do they differ exactly ? Good question - when I wrote ido, I started hacking on the iswitchb code, but i found it akward to use the iswitchb prefix - I tried to use an ifindf- prefix for the new functions, but things were so glued together (in particular in the minibuffer hooks) that I chose a completely new prefix ido- for everything. When I was done, things had moved quite far away from iswitchb (in the internals and in the names of functions and options), that I didn't see a way to synchronize with iswitchb. I guess iswitchb is still there for those who don't want to use the same interface for find-file (why not?) -- in that case, it is more lightweight than the full ido. -- Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk