From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Josh Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] trunk r115058: * lisp/iswitchb.el (iswitchb-mode): Mark ob Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 18:24:17 -0800 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1384655096 18527 80.91.229.3 (17 Nov 2013 02:24:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 02:24:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Xue Fuqiao , emacs-devel To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 17 03:25:01 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Vhs2n-0004BQ-A0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Nov 2013 03:25:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37767 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vhs2m-0001p4-Ig for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 16 Nov 2013 21:25:00 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51853) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vhs2f-0001ol-3m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Nov 2013 21:24:57 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vhs2a-0002kK-AN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Nov 2013 21:24:53 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-we0-f175.google.com ([74.125.82.175]:53665) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vhs2a-0002kG-4L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Nov 2013 21:24:48 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-we0-f175.google.com with SMTP id p61so257111wes.20 for ; Sat, 16 Nov 2013 18:24:47 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from :date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=Hdd3unvhD7eQYqMFes6vZoPBqGbl+UXv3sKVwVBf4HU=; b=LLxnnJx0ZRmY+tdSZx/5iT5i9f/HXwKg0sHUE6MkTWB91ugwDiKHPEOl/KQELC0HeO V3CZJIxYeVUJ89qlqCpDuvGTx8zEyI1PX2pNrNulJMvGrH5hbeVVG4SO+xYdGVgHBKA/ JAjP10SaOUh6U4SPMifx+fiGnNgi+XD+AFK+NfSo+nARKWP4AohO9PUTPLSfTHtJSEaa aK1Gixfq98Hnuwa5c2fVBH/kKrjl1NNS1In/gPP1C2j6j/F0aldM0Yl8QGbJZBdj0gPt gGDI0Eh+JCmwYeXiBt8aviy2UZIOP709QtWGkLif/XzuC0/hk4+bcG7BDdIbSG4DQ22p P2dA== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQliILgre7zSTzk6a6yWON8YrCYpy8Ys7PDz+UI97+vtgbKm/CKsFXOk6wbb0heZiwxskwNj X-Received: by 10.194.232.133 with SMTP id to5mr767763wjc.41.1384655087407; Sat, 16 Nov 2013 18:24:47 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.194.24.7 with HTTP; Sat, 16 Nov 2013 18:24:17 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: X-Google-Sender-Auth: ln-HUDCYwd5jeGJgBPZfMOERb6w X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 74.125.82.175 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:165286 Archived-At: On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 5:24 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> The obsolescence itself is a little surprising to me, as I personally >> know of a few people who prefer it to more featureful alternatives, >> but far more surprising to me is the designation of icomplete as its >> successor instead of ido. It's my impression that ido is _far_ more >> widely used than icomplete. > > icomplete-mode does not make ido-mode obsolete, indeed, far from it. > And if people want to use it, ido-mode is just as available as before. You misunderstood. It is iswitchb's obsolescence that surprises me, and iswitchb that those few people I mentioned prefer. Leaving that aside, if iswitchb is to be obsoleted then ido seems like a far more sensible successor because people seem to prefer it to icomplete by a wide margin.