From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Don Armstrong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: iswitchb Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:17:50 -0700 Message-ID: <20080320201750.GO13733@jax.donarmstrong.com> References: <20080320025128.GB7406@rzlab.ucr.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1206044332 3273 80.91.229.12 (20 Mar 2008 20:18:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:18:52 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 20 21:19:21 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JcREM-0004QG-8d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:19:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JcRDl-0004fC-Us for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:18:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JcRDh-0004ep-S6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:18:37 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JcRDg-0004eL-7w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:18:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JcRDg-0004eH-2E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:18:36 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu ([138.23.92.77]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JcRDf-0002MO-Gp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:18:35 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu (rzlab.ucr.edu [127.0.0.1]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id m2KKJ1v8011920 for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:19:01 -0700 Original-Received: (from remotemail@localhost) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id m2KKJ0I7011919 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:19:00 -0700 Original-Received: (nullmailer pid 1880 invoked by uid 1000); Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:17:50 -0000 Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:93059 Archived-At: On Thu, 20 Mar 2008, Richard Stallman wrote: > I am not trying to propose any change in iswitchb. Sure, but I did. > If the people who use it like it, why change it? > However, I object to making it the default. The suggestion was a change that would overcome (from what I saw) the major problem that you and others like you who are used to the current behavoir had, hopefully allowing it to become the default. I know I personally wish I had known about iswitchb far earlier than I learned about it, and I suspect that I'm not the only one. Don Armstrong -- Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy. -- Robert Heinlein _Time Enough For Love_ p251 http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu