From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm)
Cc: John Wiegley <johnw@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: making iswitchb the default
Date: 15 Apr 2004 18:10:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3llkx8bnb.fsf@kfs-l.imdomain.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <407E79F4.9060002@gnu.org>
Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org> writes:
> With ido, if I enter 1 TAB, I get a Completions buffer with the same
> contents as the minibuffer (which is useful when there are too many
> buffers to display in the minibuffer), but when I enter a second TAB,
> it acts like C-x o (other-window), placing my cursor back in the
> Window I
> started from. This looks like a bug.
This doesn't happen to me.
If there is only one completion that matches, TAB selects that bffer.
>
> > Normally ido matches everywhere in the name.
>
> I suspected that might be the case, and I guess that for advanced
> users once they get used to it, it might be faster. But for a new
> user, such behaviour is surprising, so I would not recommend ido to be
> enabled by default.
I think the current default is fine. Neither iswitchb nor ido should
be the default for reasons already discussed here.
--
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk> http://www.cua.dk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-15 16:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-14 21:32 making iswitchb the default John Wiegley
2004-04-14 21:43 ` Miles Bader
2004-04-14 22:53 ` John Wiegley
2004-04-15 7:41 ` Jason Rumney
2004-04-15 10:44 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-04-15 11:05 ` Jason Rumney
2004-04-15 13:45 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-04-15 12:03 ` Jason Rumney
2004-04-15 16:10 ` Kim F. Storm [this message]
2004-04-16 7:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-04-16 11:13 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-04-17 8:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-04-18 11:56 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-04-18 14:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-04-18 16:06 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-04-19 6:43 ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-04-15 11:48 ` Stephen Eglen
2004-04-15 13:14 ` Jason Rumney
2004-04-15 22:37 ` Stefan Daschek
2004-04-16 7:38 ` Jason Rumney
2004-04-14 21:46 ` Alan Shutko
2004-04-14 22:06 ` David Kastrup
2004-04-15 9:48 ` Stephen Eglen
2004-04-15 10:52 ` David Kastrup
2004-04-15 21:53 ` John Wiegley
2004-04-15 14:35 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-04-15 0:37 ` Kim F. Storm
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