From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Confusing completion for buffer names Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 01:52:38 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1276840378 3211 80.91.229.12 (18 Jun 2010 05:52:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 05:52:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 18 07:52:57 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OPUVa-0007cU-CM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Jun 2010 07:52:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52333 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OPUVY-0003PQ-Pr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Jun 2010 01:52:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=56676 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OPUVN-0003Ns-S9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Jun 2010 01:52:42 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OPUVM-00033k-RE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Jun 2010 01:52:41 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:54273 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OPUVM-00033e-Mp; Fri, 18 Jun 2010 01:52:40 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ArgFAJqmGkxLd+Hj/2dsb2JhbACSX4whcsAuhRkEjRQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.53,437,1272859200"; d="scan'208";a="68325924" Original-Received: from 75-119-225-227.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO alfajor.home) ([75.119.225.227]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 18 Jun 2010 01:52:39 -0400 Original-Received: by alfajor.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 8D302AE1A5; Fri, 18 Jun 2010 01:52:38 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:26:46 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:126122 Archived-At: > If there is no buffer name starting with `*l', I want it to say > `[No match]' -- not give me `*mail*'. One way to do that would be to have read-buffer change `completion-styles'. E.g. it could replace partial-completion by substring (which I think is also more useful for buffer completion). Stefan