From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: C-x C-b (switch-to-buffer) smarter suggestions? Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:48:32 +0100 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: <3vhd47-4oa.ln1@news.eternal-september.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1265900465 8889 80.91.229.12 (11 Feb 2010 15:01:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:01:05 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 11 16:01:03 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NfaXI-0000ok-NT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:00:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39068 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NfaXI-0003ai-6S for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:00:56 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NfaWt-0003Xb-1M for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:00:31 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=36846 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NfaWr-0003VG-Rd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:00:29 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NfaWp-0007gP-Ke for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:00:28 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:39632) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NfaWo-0007gA-NN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:00:27 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NfaWl-0000Ib-Lv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:00:23 +0100 Original-Received: from 85.183.18.158 ([85.183.18.158]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:00:23 +0100 Original-Received: from rileyrgdev by 85.183.18.158 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:00:23 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.183.18.158 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:71800 Archived-At: Jorgen Grahn writes: > On Mon, 2010-02-08, Stefan Monnier wrote: >>> So you're implying that Emacs 23 fixes exactly that, or that it >>> reworks the buffer selection interface completely? >> >> I revamped the minibuffer completion code in Emacs-23, and along the way >> someone installed a patch that provides just the feature you're >> asking for. >> >>> Actually I still use Emacs 21. Emacs 22 is also available as part of >>> Debian Linux, but I gain more by sticking to 21, which is the one >>> available at work (semi-officially available -- officially we are >>> stuck with 20). >> >> Emacs-23 is also available in Debian (at least in Debian testing). > > I'm sure it is, but I'm a Debian "stable" kind of guy. You probably know, but just in case ;), Emacs 23 is also available for Debian Stable in the Lenny backports. regards r.