From: Antoine Levitt <antoine.levitt@gmail.com>
To: 2042@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#2042: Ido-mode : filtering does not keep ordering
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 10:54:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ehz5t31h.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6fa54e4e0901250554q1519cba5t83df1577e2cbc132@mail.gmail.com>
24/09/11 18:20, Leo
> On 2009-01-25 21:54 +0800, Antoine Levitt wrote:
>> Hi,
>> When buffer switching in Ido, filtering the list of available buffers does
>> not keep the original ordering of buffers (from most recent to oldest).
>> Ie if I have for instance buffers foobar and barfoo, in this order, if I
>> type bar, they are displayed to me as barfoo foobar. I understand this is a
>> reasonable behavior in a number of case, but it's annoying when using ido to
>> quickly toggle between working buffers, where I have old and forgotten
>> buffers pop up as the first option in the completion list. Would it be
>> possible to add a switch ?
>>
>> Antoine Levitt
>
> I occasionally try iswitch-mode and find its buffer switching much more
> pleasant to use than ido's. The trouble is ido tries to be smart in
> ordering matches. Sadly that gets in the way most of the time.
>
> I wonder if people are willing to try the following (preliminary) patch
> and see if they miss anything.
That's much better! Thanks!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-25 8:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-25 13:54 bug#2042: Ido-mode : filtering does not keep ordering Antoine Levitt
2011-09-24 16:20 ` Leo
2011-09-25 8:54 ` Antoine Levitt [this message]
2011-10-01 19:10 ` Chong Yidong
2011-10-02 0:04 ` Leo
2011-10-29 6:38 ` Chong Yidong
2011-10-29 7:06 ` Leo
2012-09-16 9:29 ` Matthew Woodcraft
2012-09-16 14:55 ` Leo
2012-09-16 15:03 ` Leo
2012-09-16 16:33 ` Chong Yidong
2012-09-16 22:28 ` Leo
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