iswitchb is deprecated

iswitchb is deprecated

[Stephen Eglen]

Since Emacs 24.4, iswitchb is marked as obsolete:

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This function is obsolete since 24.4;
use `icomplete-mode' or `ido-mode' instead.
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Do people use `org-iswitchb' much?  If so, it might be time to get it to
default to ido or icomplete.

Stephen

Re: iswitchb is deprecated

[Rasmus]

Hi Stephen,

Thanks for your comment.

Stephen Eglen <S.J.Eglen@damtp.cam.ac.uk> writes:

> Since Emacs 24.4, iswitchb is marked as obsolete:
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> This function is obsolete since 24.4;
> use `icomplete-mode' or `ido-mode' instead.
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> Do people use `org-iswitchb' much?  If so, it might be time to get it to
> default to ido or icomplete.

First, there's already the variable org-completion-use-ido which also
affects org-switchb.  Second, I don't know if there's a point in
/removing/ the support for org-completion-use-iswitchb.  E.g. Debian still
has an old version of Emacs.

What you could do is make ido the default backend, especially if
icomplete-mode is obsolete.  E.g. in org-switchb you would edit this
statement to default to ido, preferably only if icomplete is obsolete:

(unless (or org-completion-use-ido org-completion-use-iswitchb)
      (setq org-completion-use-iswitchb t))

You could also update the docstring of `org-completion-use-iswitchb'.

See http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contribute.html for the details.

Cheers,
Rasmus

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