Re: iswitchb

[Don Armstrong <don@donarmstrong.com>]

On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, paul r wrote:
>   - what is really helpful in iswitchb in the possibility to enter
> any substring of the buffer name to find it, but this could be
> implemented into current default switch-to-buffer.

What probably should be adjusted here is the ordering when you've
typed in the exact name of a buffer; that buffer should just come to
the front of the list (with possible exceptions for foo<1> et al?).
That way iswitchb will get out of the way of people who expect the old
behavoir, but allow people to gradually learn the new behavoir.

>   - C-s and C-r to cycle through matches are not intuitive enought,
> some better idea about how to disambiguate buffer names should be
> proposed.

This is how most everything does forward and reverse searching, so
it's not that unintuitive.


Don Armstrong

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