From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Terje Bless Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: The minibuffer vs. Dialog Boxes (Re: Making XEmacs be more up-to-date) Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 01:21:57 +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=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1019607205 15784 127.0.0.1 (24 Apr 2002 00:13:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 00:13:25 +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 170APV-00046T-00 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 02:13:25 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 170AQu-00024P-00 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 02:14:53 +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 170AP9-0005OC-00; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 20:13:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.wavelan.no ([217.144.228.111] helo=isa) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 170ANJ-0005IM-00 for ; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 20:11:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [217.144.228.69] by isa (ArGoSoft Mail Server Pro for WinNT/2000/XP, Version 1.8 (1.8.1.1)); Wed, 24 Apr 2002 02:13:02 +0200 Original-To: Kai =?iso-8859-1?Q?Gro=FEjohann?= X-Priority: 3 In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Mailsmith Prerelease (Blindsider) 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:3146 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:3146 Kai Gro=FEjohann wrote: >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? The same as you probably, but only after the pain of trying to do it with the mouse got to be too much some years back. For this I would much rather have the familiar, if far less powerfull, native file select widget. It's familiar so even if it isn't intuitive it's at least consistent. But the switch to buffer bit is simply that me and Hrvoje are speaking of slightly different things. Switch to buffer by name is there, but I'd like to cycle through buffers sequentially; analogous to switching between applications using Alt-TAB on Windows or Cmd-TAB on Mac OS. A simple repetetive action instead of a single complicated one. This is probably just because I tend to have far fewer buffers then Hrvoje, or maybe I'm just weird or whatever. :-)