From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, 9591@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9591: 24.0.50; buffer name completion
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 09:42:46 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83bou2edjt.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv8vp7ui7y.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 18:02:25 -0400
> Cc: rms@gnu.org, 9591@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> Having looked a bit more into it, I'm undecided:
> we could go like you suggest and force users to type a leading space,
> but at least for my own use this would be inconvenient, since I pretty
> often need to get at hidden buffers, and often don't know the exact name
> of the buffer I want (and I don't even always know whether it's a hidden
> buffer or not, since Elisp authors aren't always very consistent about
> it). So I find it very handy to just say "C-x b *foo TAB" (or indeed
> just "C-x b foo TAB" in Emacs-24) and see all buffers that contain
> "foo", regardless of whether they're hidden or not.
> So it seems that both behaviors are desirable and I'm not sure how to
> tell which to use when.
There's what Lars suggested, which sounds like it can cater to both
use cases.
Failing that, add some non-default completion style which behaves like
you want. I hope _you_ have no problems with customizing for
non-default behavior ;-)
> confirm-nonexistent-file-or-buffer already found resistance when
> I introduced it
I don't understand the resistance: that feature saved my a$$ a few
times, when my fingers were faster than my brain.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-30 6:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-24 12:28 bug#9591: 24.0.50; buffer name completion Richard Stallman
2011-09-24 18:44 ` Chong Yidong
2011-09-24 23:52 ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-25 0:19 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-25 8:35 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-09-25 17:34 ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-25 17:52 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-26 1:00 ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-25 18:45 ` Drew Adams
2011-09-25 1:04 ` Chong Yidong
2011-09-25 17:34 ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-29 22:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-29 22:39 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-30 21:03 ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-30 6:42 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2011-09-30 19:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-01 14:05 ` Richard Stallman
2011-10-01 14:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-01 20:54 ` Richard Stallman
2011-10-02 0:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-26 1:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-26 5:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-26 7:56 ` Stephen Berman
2011-09-26 8:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-27 17:45 ` Drew Adams
2011-09-27 18:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
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