From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: Didier Verna <didier@xemacs.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: New interactive spec
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:44:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zl6v6z6p.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv639j1hln.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:03:35 -0500")
>>> I've recently modified the behavior of switch-to-buffer in XEmacs so
>>> that the completion mechanism doesn't include the current buffer. In
>>> doing so, I figured it would be generally useful to have an
>>> interactive spec for that (meaning "a buffer except the current
>>> one"). I was thinking g/G because that's the next thing available to
>>> us, but I'm wondering if GNU Emacs already uses it, or if you'd have
>>> another suggestion.
>
>> "G" is already taken, but "g" would be free.
>
>> G -- Possibly nonexistent file name, defaulting to just directory
>> name.
>
> How important is it to have a letter for it?
I see a tendency in the opposite direction - replacing letters
with equivalent Lisp code to be able to add more functionality.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-10 0:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-09 17:31 New interactive spec Didier Verna
2009-11-09 20:16 ` Tassilo Horn
2009-11-09 22:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-10 0:44 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2009-11-10 11:42 ` Didier Verna
2009-11-10 21:50 ` Miles Bader
2009-11-11 10:00 ` Didier Verna
2009-11-13 16:11 ` Per Starbäck
2009-11-15 15:05 ` Juri Linkov
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