From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: How to select one of the buffers that match a substring in "switch-to-buffer"? Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2015 11:05:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1433786843 18144 80.91.229.3 (8 Jun 2015 18:07:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2015 18:07:23 +0000 (UTC) To: "KARR, DAVID" , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 08 20:07:09 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1Z21Ry-0003Lw-AH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Jun 2015 20:07:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59547 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z21Rx-0006GY-L7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Jun 2015 14:07:05 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54352) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z21Q8-0003pT-E0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Jun 2015 14:05:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z21Q5-0001vD-9F for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Jun 2015 14:05:12 -0400 Original-Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:20071) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z21Q4-0001te-Rr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Jun 2015 14:05:08 -0400 Original-Received: from aserv0021.oracle.com (aserv0021.oracle.com [141.146.126.233]) by aserp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id t58I56kI014050 (version=TLSv1 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Mon, 8 Jun 2015 18:05:06 GMT Original-Received: from aserv0122.oracle.com (aserv0122.oracle.com [141.146.126.236]) by aserv0021.oracle.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id t58I56f6021218 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL); Mon, 8 Jun 2015 18:05:06 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0012.oracle.com (abhmp0012.oracle.com [141.146.116.18]) by aserv0122.oracle.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id t58I567Z017985; Mon, 8 Jun 2015 18:05:06 GMT In-Reply-To: X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.9 (901082) [OL 12.0.6691.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: aserv0021.oracle.com [141.146.126.233] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 141.146.126.69 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:104840 Archived-At: > "iswitchb", but I think that's been deprecated... > Is there any way to get the "old and enhanced" behavior? `icomplete-mode' is the official replacement for `iswitchb', AFAIK. Icicles completion will also give you what you want. Likewise, `ido-mode'. Also, in the scenario you described (vanilla `C-x b'), you can type some more chars to continue completing (with TAB).