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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Buffer names with R2L characters
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 09:26:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87aadbve5o.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: buofwn3pzw6.fsf@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com

Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> I don't think we should wait for such a feature and in the meantime
>> display "12>FEDCBA>" as buffer name.  I'd like to have a solution,
>> even if an interim one, for Emacs 24.1.
>
> Do you think this case will be common enough in practice to be worth
> worrying about in the short term?
>
> In my experience redundant buffer/file names are not very common for
> _arbitrary_ files.  Rather, they tend to occur with very specific
> names where the name is not chosen by the user, but rather is due to
> some external standard -- e.g. "Makefile", "*shell*", "README".

I have them quite often when comparing/merging versions of files.

-- 
David Kastrup




  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-06-21  7:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-20 16:21 Buffer names with R2L characters Eli Zaretskii
2011-06-20 18:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-06-20 20:52   ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-06-20 20:13 ` James Cloos
2011-06-20 21:08   ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-06-21  4:26     ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-06-21  6:28       ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-06-21  8:44         ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-06-21 14:28           ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-06-21  4:33     ` Miles Bader
2011-06-21  6:30       ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-06-21  7:26       ` David Kastrup [this message]
2011-06-20 21:06 ` Kalle Olavi Niemitalo
2011-06-21  2:51   ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-06-21 16:52 ` Ehud Karni
2011-06-21 17:24   ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-06-21 17:59     ` Ehud Karni
2011-06-21 18:10       ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-06-22 22:27       ` Stefan Monnier
2011-06-23  9:16         ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-06-25 13:25           ` Stefan Monnier

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