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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: iswitchb
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:44:49 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1Jc65Z-0007f6-I2@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)

After trying iswitchb for several days, I concluded it was not very
helpful, and was occasionally a pain in the neck.

It is not very helpful for me because I know what buffer I want to go
to and I start typing the beginning of it without looking at anything.
The only way iswitchb could help me is if I were to look at its
display to try to find a shorter string that would work.  But that
would slow me down.

iswitchb was a pain in the neck when I wanted to go to buffer inout
and it kept taking me to 4inout and 5inout instead.  I did not at first
even see what was happening.  When I did see, I still didn't know
a way to prevent it.  I suppose there is some iswitchb feature I
could use, but rather than learn it, I turned off iswitchb.

I don't think this feature should be enabled by default.





             reply	other threads:[~2008-03-19 21:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-19 21:44 Richard Stallman [this message]
2008-03-19 22:31 ` iswitchb paul r
2008-03-20  2:51   ` iswitchb Don Armstrong
2008-03-20  3:08     ` iswitchb Daniel Colascione
2008-03-20  8:43     ` iswitchb paul r
2008-03-20 14:22       ` iswitchb Stefan Monnier
2008-03-20 14:44         ` iswitchb paul r
2008-03-20 17:32         ` minibuffer completion functions [was: iswitchb] Drew Adams
2008-03-20 18:37     ` iswitchb Richard Stallman
2008-03-20 20:17       ` iswitchb Don Armstrong
2008-03-22  3:24         ` iswitchb Richard Stallman
     [not found] <20180311031648.8003.90161@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
     [not found] ` <20180311031649.A9FBF20F52@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
2018-03-11  3:21   ` [Emacs-diffs] master f1c48b0: Remove many items obsolete since Emacs 22.1 Daniel Colascione
2018-03-11  3:40     ` iswitchb (was: [Emacs-diffs] master f1c48b0: Remove many items obsolete since Emacs 22.1) Stefan Monnier
2018-03-12 10:22       ` iswitchb Robert Pluim
2018-03-12 11:21         ` iswitchb Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-12 11:44           ` iswitchb Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-12 13:57             ` iswitchb Robert Pluim
2018-03-12 14:41               ` iswitchb Noam Postavsky
2018-03-12 16:56                 ` iswitchb Robert Pluim
2018-03-12 17:36                   ` iswitchb Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-12 17:56                     ` iswitchb Robert Pluim
2018-03-13 16:42                       ` iswitchb Robert Pluim
2018-03-14 15:54                         ` iswitchb Eli Zaretskii

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