From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.xemacs.beta Subject: Re: New interactive spec Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:50:55 +0900 Message-ID: <87eio682ww.fsf@catnip.gol.com> References: <873a4nqws0.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1257889885 3724 80.91.229.12 (10 Nov 2009 21:51:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:51:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Stefan Monnier , xemacs-beta@xemacs.org To: Didier Verna Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 10 22:51:18 2009 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 1N7ycP-0004vW-VX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:51:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37241 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N7ycP-0006Kv-9u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:51:17 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N7ycI-0006KS-OR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:51:10 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N7ycD-0006JV-8d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:51:09 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35240 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N7ycD-0006JQ-4L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:51:05 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp12.dentaku.gol.com ([203.216.5.74]:46845) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N7ycA-0005pw-W0; Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:51:03 -0500 Original-Received: from 218.231.174.56.eo.eaccess.ne.jp ([218.231.174.56] helo=catnip.gol.com) by smtp12.dentaku.gol.com with esmtpa (Dentaku) id 1N7yc4-0008H4-F2; Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:50:56 +0900 Original-Received: by catnip.gol.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9A851DF8C; Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:50:55 +0900 (JST) System-Type: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: (Didier Verna's message of "Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:42:03 +0100") Original-Lines: 17 X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV GOL (outbound) X-Abuse-Complaints: abuse@gol.com X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 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:116822 gmane.emacs.xemacs.beta:31251 Archived-At: Didier Verna writes: > But now that I think about it, I'm starting to realize that every > interactive call using b and providing the current buffer as the default > one could avoid completing to the current buffer altogether because you > just need to type RETURN to get it. So maybe I should modify the b > specification instead... I don't think that's a very good idea -- I find that I _often_ try to type/complete a name even if it's available as a default via RET, and it would be very disconcerting if valid names were not available for completion simply because they were also available using a different mechanism. -Miles -- Defenceless, adj. Unable to attack.