* Replacing ido with iswitchb results in not being able to get to "/c/" in Emacs
@ 2014-05-04 18:27 KARR, DAVID
2014-05-04 19:58 ` Drew Adams
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From: KARR, DAVID @ 2014-05-04 18:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
I was using the released version of Emacs in Cygwin 1.7.29, and I moved to the "test" version of "24.3.90.1" to test some fatal error problems.
I noticed that it complained that "iswitchb" is obsolete, so I switched to "ido", which is apparently recommended to replace it.
When I started using it, I immediately noticed a blocking problem with it. I map "/cygdrive" to "/c" in /etc/fstab. In Emacs, with ido, when I type "/c/", it gives me the following completion choices: "{etc/ | proc/ | cygdrive/}". I don't know what I'm supposed to do now. If I just continue typing the path I need, it replaces "/c/" with "/etc/", which isn't what I want. It doesn't appear that I can get to "/c/" with ido.
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* RE: Replacing ido with iswitchb results in not being able to get to "/c/" in Emacs
2014-05-04 18:27 Replacing ido with iswitchb results in not being able to get to "/c/" in Emacs KARR, DAVID
@ 2014-05-04 19:58 ` Drew Adams
2014-05-04 21:49 ` Stefan Monnier
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From: Drew Adams @ 2014-05-04 19:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: KARR, DAVID, help-gnu-emacs
> I noticed that it complained that "iswitchb" is obsolete, so I
> switched to "ido", which is apparently recommended to replace it.
Actually it is Icomplete mode that is intended to replace IswitchB mode.
`C-h N' (NEWS) shows this:
** Obsolete packages
+++
*** iswitchb.el; use icomplete-mode.
(And yes, the doc string for `iswitchb-mode' mentions `ido-mode' also.)
IMO, you *should* be able to nevertheless continue to use IswitchB as
before, if you like: deprecation should not immediately remove the
functionality from the product.
However, you cannot even get the package from the GNU package archive -
it was simply removed. You can still find it, though - here, for example:
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/*checkout*/emacs/emacs/lisp/iswitchb.el
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