From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tobias Gerdin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: partial completion and switch-to-buffer Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:31:16 +0200 Message-ID: <87y6p9fcu3.fsf@opera.com> References: <87ljldmenu.fsf@opera.com> <290ED1E8561A453C8F3858E1FFF860D8@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1251218258 24699 80.91.229.12 (25 Aug 2009 16:37:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:37:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 25 18:37:31 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Mfz1X-0003Ax-8c for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:37:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56538 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mfz1W-0005ju-Jw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:37:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MfbVj-0000mm-F0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Aug 2009 11:31:07 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MfbVe-0000kT-69 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Aug 2009 11:31:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=39695 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MfbVd-0000kG-SB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Aug 2009 11:31:01 -0400 Original-Received: from sam.opera.com ([213.236.208.81]:35268 helo=smtp.opera.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MfbVd-0005h7-9r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Aug 2009 11:31:01 -0400 Original-Received: from tger-desktop (sgw-oslo.opera.com [213.236.208.47]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.opera.com (8.13.4/8.13.4/Debian-3sarge3) with ESMTP id n7OFUxLE031554 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:30:59 GMT Original-Received: from tger by tger-desktop with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MfbVs-00025B-Hr; Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:31:16 +0200 In-Reply-To: <290ED1E8561A453C8F3858E1FFF860D8@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Sat, 22 Aug 2009 08:10:26 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:36:42 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:67512 Archived-At: "Drew Adams" writes: >> I am aware of iswitch-mode and ido-mode, which does substring matching >> (which is basically what I want), but find them too obtrusive. I do not >> want any completion to be done unless I say so (by pressing ). > > Icicles does no completion until you say so (by pressing TAB), by default. I am aware of Icicles, but I would prefer not to have to rely on an external package for this simple matter. But thanks for the thorough explanation. -Tobias