From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Eglen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: icomplete-mode vs. iswitchb Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 12:41:13 +0000 Organization: University of Cambridge, Maths Message-ID: References: <871u1iuuel.fsf@yandex.ru> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1386852100 26778 80.91.229.3 (12 Dec 2013 12:41:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 12:41:40 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 12 13:41:45 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Vr5aK-000251-9G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Dec 2013 13:41:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35703 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vr5aJ-0008N0-Q4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Dec 2013 07:41:43 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43706) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vr5a9-0008MG-8k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Dec 2013 07:41:40 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vr5a1-0005Nn-VC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Dec 2013 07:41:33 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:51346) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vr5a1-0005Ng-OK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Dec 2013 07:41:25 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Vr5a0-0001pX-GT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Dec 2013 13:41:24 +0100 Original-Received: from rgc.damtp.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.17.127]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 12 Dec 2013 13:41:24 +0100 Original-Received: from S.J.Eglen by rgc.damtp.cam.ac.uk with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 12 Dec 2013 13:41:24 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: rgc.damtp.cam.ac.uk User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:cHKtiT4/WuylWNrylCN36Cxv/uw= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:166330 Archived-At: On Thu, Dec 12 2013, Dmitry Gutov wrote: > Setting aside the fact that it doesn't do what you intended (ido-mode > ends up set to `both', see this variable's docstring for details) Thank you; so I should do: (ido-mode 'buffers) I have no opinion (yet) on the merits of icomplete vs iswitchb/ido, as I have not yet tried icomplete. All I'm saying is that ido seems a more natural successor to iswitchb. S