From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: The minibuffer vs. Dialog Boxes (Re: Making XEmacs be more up-to-date) Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 13:26:55 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1019563337 26272 127.0.0.1 (23 Apr 2002 12:02:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 12:02:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Hrvoje Niksic , 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 16zyzx-0006pd-00 for ; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 14:02:17 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16zz18-0002D9-00 for ; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 14:03:30 +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 16zyVA-00075R-00; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 07:30:28 -0400 Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de ([129.217.4.42]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16zyS3-0006nA-00 for ; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 07:27:15 -0400 Original-Received: from lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lothlorien [129.217.19.67]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with ESMTP id g3NBR1b06927; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 13:27:01 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.19.80]) by lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de id NAA03183; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 13:26:55 +0200 (MET DST) Original-Received: by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix, from userid 6104) id 875CE3B390; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 13:26:55 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Terje Bless In-Reply-To: (Terje Bless's message of "Sun, 21 Apr 2002 17:11:36 +0200") Original-Lines: 25 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.2.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) 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:3102 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:3102 Terje Bless writes: > Hrvoje Niksic wrote: > >>Pressing `C-x b ' gives you a "completions" buffer > > And *poof* you've just thrown me into a new world; "Mommy this is > _confusing_! My window just split in two and half my text is hidden. I > don't know what to do!" What do you use to open files? This is a genuine question. I have the feeling that anyone who has evern used TAB after C-x C-f will know what is going on, as the completions feature is the same everywhere in Emacs. But I learned about TAB after C-x C-f in 1989 when using Jove, so my memory about my own feelings after C-x b might well be wrong. (In fact, I think for some years I thought that C-x b isn't really useful, since I could use C-x C-f with much the same effect: I came to the existing buffer, at the same spot. I recall thinking why is there C-x b if C-x C-f is also fast? This was still using Jove.) kai -- Silence is foo!