From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: Didier Verna <didier@xemacs.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>,
xemacs-beta@xemacs.org
Subject: Re: New interactive spec
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:50:55 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eio682ww.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <muxfx8m4nec.fsf@uzeb.lrde.epita.fr> (Didier Verna's message of "Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:42:03 +0100")
Didier Verna <didier@xemacs.org> writes:
> But now that I think about it, I'm starting to realize that every
> interactive call using b and providing the current buffer as the default
> one could avoid completing to the current buffer altogether because you
> just need to type RETURN to get it. So maybe I should modify the b
> specification instead...
I don't think that's a very good idea -- I find that I _often_ try to
type/complete a name even if it's available as a default via RET, and it
would be very disconcerting if valid names were not available for
completion simply because they were also available using a different
mechanism.
-Miles
--
Defenceless, adj. Unable to attack.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-10 21:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-09 17:31 New interactive spec Didier Verna
2009-11-09 20:16 ` Tassilo Horn
2009-11-09 22:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-10 0:44 ` Juri Linkov
2009-11-10 11:42 ` Didier Verna
2009-11-10 21:50 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2009-11-11 10:00 ` Didier Verna
2009-11-13 16:11 ` Per Starbäck
2009-11-15 15:05 ` Juri Linkov
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