From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: position on changing defaults? Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2008 12:39:48 -0400 Message-ID: References: <200803050637.m256bXL3008361@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <200803052230.m25MUORx001881@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <200803070407.m27471TG016558@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <87skz03otb.fsf@jurta.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1205080872 25931 80.91.229.12 (9 Mar 2008 16:41:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 16:41:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 09 17:41:40 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 1JYOaY-0001ir-SK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Mar 2008 17:41:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JYOa0-0002v5-QW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Mar 2008 12:40:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JYOZ1-0002JI-J8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Mar 2008 12:39:56 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JYOYv-0002Bj-8a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Mar 2008 12:39:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JYOYv-0002Bc-5I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Mar 2008 12:39:49 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JYOYv-0003Uh-3F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Mar 2008 12:39:49 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JYOYu-0006nK-EW; Sun, 09 Mar 2008 12:39:48 -0400 In-reply-to: <87skz03otb.fsf@jurta.org> (message from Juri Linkov on Sat, 08 Mar 2008 23:09:52 +0200) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:91883 Archived-At: 1. After typing C-x b: each M-n (or down-arrow) key will put the next buffer name to the minibuffer, starting with the most recent buffer and going in the order buffers are stored in the buffer list. That sounds nice -- and hurts nothing. 2. After typing C-x b: C-s or C-M-s will incrementally search the buffer list for the buffer name that matches the search string or regexp. So to switch to the buffer, the users can simply type any unique part of the buffer name or to repeatedly type C-s until seeing the needed buffer name, e.g.: `C-x b C-s [substring] C-s ... RET' Does this mean it works like C-s except that it searches through text that is bigger than just what is in the minibuffer? Or is it an incompatible change in C-s? If it is incompatible, we should change C-s for all minibuffers, or for none. And I think changing it for all minibuffers would cause problems in some. If the change in C-s is compatible, then I think it could be ok to do it in just buffer reading, but it might be good to make it more general if possible.