From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: martin rudalics Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: isearch multiple buffers Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 08:47:29 +0200 Message-ID: <47203C01.4070909@gmx.at> References: <87odfcggvl.fsf@jurta.org> <873awlidih.fsf@offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net> <871wc51any.fsf@jurta.org> <878x6a6ktw.fsf@jurta.org> <871wc15m2b.fsf@jurta.org> <87lk9ylkbb.fsf@jurta.org> <87hckk9uoa.fsf@jurta.org> <87abqcrq9p.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <471BE5D3.3050007@gmail.com> <87y7dwq7x9.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87odepv21n.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87ir4wjcev.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1193294892 2650 80.91.229.12 (25 Oct 2007 06:48:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 06:48:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 25 08:48:13 2007 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 1IkwVo-0005PU-Pd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 08:48:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IkwVg-0005ME-Jq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 02:48:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IkwUw-0004cE-7c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 02:47:18 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IkwUu-0004bs-S7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 02:47:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IkwUu-0004bp-J1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 02:47:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IkwUt-0000UD-TE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 02:47:16 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 25 Oct 2007 06:47:15 -0000 Original-Received: from N768P013.adsl.highway.telekom.at (EHLO [62.47.39.237]) [62.47.39.237] by mail.gmx.net (mp024) with SMTP; 25 Oct 2007 08:47:15 +0200 X-Authenticated: #14592706 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX197qvc+rv57YnryN3OWVfTpmM/bIPE6XGxBW8yBXP l4K++wcnYNayec User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: de-DE, de, en-us, en In-Reply-To: <87ir4wjcev.fsf@catnip.gol.com> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:81687 Archived-At: > Because the 8.3 name restriction has a negative effect for _all_ > developers. I think the 8.3 name restriction had the benefit that the names of most Emacs' files have been kept succinct and yet meaningful over the time. Names of buffers and files don't occupy much space in the modeline and are readable for iconified frames. I can easily display lists of files and buffers in ten characters wide sidebars on the left of my editing window. Admittedly, thinking of a good filename fitting the restriction may take some time. However, I'm afraid that removing the restriction will soon lead to more monstrosities like "idlw-complete-structtag.el".