From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: partial completion and switch-to-buffer Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 07:03:42 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <335966bb-f6b4-4f85-b84d-11e769de1bb4@x6g2000prc.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1250963888 17403 80.91.229.12 (22 Aug 2009 17:58:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 17:58:08 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 22 19:58:01 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 1Meuql-0005Jq-SM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Aug 2009 19:58:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42023 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Meuql-00019U-EG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Aug 2009 13:57:59 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!x6g2000prc.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs Original-Lines: 28 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.102.12.87 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1250949822 20635 127.0.0.1 (22 Aug 2009 14:03:42 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 14:03:42 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: x6g2000prc.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.102.12.87; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/530.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/2.0.172.39 Safari/530.5, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:172256 comp.emacs:98632 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 13:52:27 -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:67417 Archived-At: On Aug 21, 7:20 am, Tobias Gerdin wrote: > Greetings, > > With the advent of partial-completion-mode in Emacs 23, I was wondering > if there isn't any way to use this mechanism with switch-to-buffer ("C-x = b")? > > Switch-to-buffer still seems to do only prefix-matching. > > 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 ). > > I'm using Emacs CVS from 2009-07-30 (i.e. pretty much 23.1). so far as my studie goes, the partial completition does not always works, perhaps by intention. However, wildcard works. So, just put a wildcard =E2=80=9C*=E2=80=9D in front first. might be of interest (contains some example): =E2=80=A2 New Features in Emacs 23 http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs23_features.html Xah =E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/ =E2=98=84