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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Bastien <bzg@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Filter list-buffers by a regexp (interactively)
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 07:17:48 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvegwsa6ts.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fvh8lrii.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> (Bastien's message of "Thu, 07 Aug 2014 08:53:41 +0200")

>>> The patch below allows to use C-u C-u C-x C-b to interactively enter
>>> a regular expression to only list buffers with a matching name.
>> We generally try to avoid using things like C-u C-u.
> Good to know.  (I don't dare looking at changes we need in Org to
> follow this recommendation.  But I will.)

Org being its own program, it's not too terrible if it has its own set
of conventions.  But C-x C-b is a "core" command.

> Maybe adding a new command and bind it to C-x C-B?  Or perhaps
> this is also not recommended?

C-B is pretty hard to get to in some cases (e.g. ttys), so indeed, we
prefer not to do that.

But maybe we can change the meaning of C-u C-x C-b, or something like that.


        Stefan



  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-07 11:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-28 17:32 [PATCH] Filter list-buffers by a regexp (interactively) Bastien
2014-08-04 11:24 ` Bastien
2014-08-06 16:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-08-07  6:53   ` Bastien
2014-08-07 11:17     ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2014-08-07 15:28       ` Herring, Davis
2014-08-08 23:41         ` Juri Linkov
2014-08-09  7:15           ` Bastien
2014-08-09 13:00             ` Stefan Monnier

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