From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "Luc Teirlinck" <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: patch for buff-menu.el enhancements
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 10:25:07 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BNELLINCGFJLDJIKDGACAEGICAAA.drew.adams@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200707101602.l6AG2H2p005213@jane.dms.auburn.edu>
> ! If `Buffer-menu-use-header-line' is non-nil, you can click a
> ! column heading to sort by that column.
>
> _Without_ your patch, you can do that even if
> `Buffer-menu-use-header-line' is nil. Disabling the feature in that
> case is definitely not improvement; in fact I consider it a bug.
I disabled nothing of the kind. The doc string was incorrect, sorry. Here's
the correction: Please remove the phrase "If `Buffer-menu-use-header-line'
is non-nil, ". Thanks for noticing that.
> I do not understand _why_ you want to reimplement the existing feature,
> which seems to work perfectly fine to me and also plays well with
> autoreverting the buffer menu. (I did not check if your
> reimplementation does.)
Please try it. I don't think I did what you suggest. There is no problem
reverting the buffer. Reverting changes nothing; the current sort is
maintained.
FWIW, I proposed essentially this same patch back in 2004. I updated it for
the latest version of buff-menu.el. See, for example, these threads:
* 2004/10/16, "buff-menu.el - minor enhancement to sort
columns up or down"
* 2004/11/19, "buff-menu.el header line"
* 2005/11/28, "Buffer listing in multiple frames/ttys"
(related wrt sorting)
The only changes from vanilla Emacs wrt column sorting that my patch makes
are those I mentioned, in particular, (1) being able to sort in either
direction, (2) indicating the current sort column and sort direction with an
overline/underline of the column heading, and (3) being able to also sort
column `CRM' (one direction of which is the default sort).
For those who use Windows Explorer, you will recognize this
click-column-header sorting; you probably use it many times a day. IMO, it
is one of the most useful features of Windows Explorer. I think we should do
the same thing for Dired.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-10 17:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-09 23:52 patch for buff-menu.el enhancements Drew Adams
2007-07-10 16:02 ` Luc Teirlinck
2007-07-10 17:25 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2007-07-10 21:21 ` Mathias Dahl
2007-07-10 21:56 ` Drew Adams
2007-07-11 10:00 ` Mathias Dahl
2007-07-15 17:42 ` Drew Adams
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