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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "KARR, DAVID" <dk068x@att.com>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: Replacing ido with iswitchb results in not being able to get to "/c/" in Emacs
Date: Sun, 4 May 2014 12:58:41 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <840ba787-f048-4557-8460-a0fc660c17fb@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B8D164BED956C5439875951895CB4B2226620E76@CAFRFD1MSGUSRIA.ITServices.sbc.com>

> I noticed that it complained that "iswitchb" is obsolete, so I
> switched to "ido", which is apparently recommended to replace it.

Actually it is Icomplete mode that is intended to replace IswitchB mode.
`C-h N' (NEWS) shows this:

  ** Obsolete packages
  +++
  *** iswitchb.el; use icomplete-mode.

(And yes, the doc string for `iswitchb-mode' mentions `ido-mode' also.)

IMO, you *should* be able to nevertheless continue to use IswitchB as
before, if you like: deprecation should not immediately remove the
functionality from the product.

However, you cannot even get the package from the GNU package archive -
it was simply removed.  You can still find it, though - here, for example:
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/*checkout*/emacs/emacs/lisp/iswitchb.el




  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-04 19:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-04 18:27 Replacing ido with iswitchb results in not being able to get to "/c/" in Emacs KARR, DAVID
2014-05-04 19:58 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2014-05-04 21:49   ` Stefan Monnier
2014-05-05  0:28     ` Drew Adams

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