From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: The minibuffer vs. Dialog Boxes (Re: Making XEmacs be more up-to-date) Date: 21 Apr 2002 11:10:29 +0900 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1019355327 24557 127.0.0.1 (21 Apr 2002 02:15:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 02:15:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Terje Bless , Eli Zaretskii , jas@extundo.com, bradym@balestra.org, xemacs-design@xemacs.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16z6sw-0006Ny-00 for ; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 04:15:26 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16z6sx-000776-00 for ; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 04:15:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16z6si-0001qW-00; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 22:15:12 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp02.fields.gol.com ([203.216.5.132]) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16z6q0-0001mu-00; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 22:12:24 -0400 Original-Received: from tc-2-200.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp ([203.216.25.200] helo=tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp) by smtp02.fields.gol.com with esmtp (Magnetic Fields) id 16z6px-0007Ku-00; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 11:12:22 +0900 Original-Received: by tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 85DE2307E; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 11:10:29 +0900 (JST) Original-To: Hrvoje Niksic System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 20 X-Abuse-Complaints: abuse@gol.com Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:2898 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:2898 Hrvoje Niksic writes: > > The lack of a command to go to a named buffer is irrelevant; doing > > that involves so much typing I'd rather select it from the menu. > > De gustibus... In my case, "much typing" is tempered by the fact that > you have completion, probably the best UI invention pushed by > Unix-like systems. Indeed; I rarely type more than 2-3 characters of a buffer name when switching to it with C-x b, and I usually have _lots_ of buffers... It's the sort of thing that may seem very annoying and inconvenient to someone that doesn't use it, but once you've used it for a while, you realize, it's really not. -Miles -- `...the Soviet Union was sliding in to an economic collapse so comprehensive that in the end its factories produced not goods but bads: finished products less valuable than the raw materials they were made from.' [The Economist]