From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Feeling lost without tabs Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 23:18:34 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87oawhhz2t.fsf@debian.uxu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1406064024 16502 80.91.229.3 (22 Jul 2014 21:20:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 21:20:24 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 22 23:20:19 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1X9hTv-0006kk-5v for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2014 23:20:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41355 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X9hTu-0003ko-B0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2014 17:20:18 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.datemas.de!rt.uk.eu.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 41 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: SIvZRMPqRkkTHAHL6NkRuw.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:2R+q9d2XrYr17gsrr8/zjn+F+Mg= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:206633 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:98907 Archived-At: Robert Thorpe writes: > There's much more reuse than you think. The normal > Emacs buffer list, the one tied to C-x C-b is > list-buffers'. I was thinking from the user's perspective. For example, I did some configuration to the Buffer menu [1] - perhaps those exact things are already in some of the other alternatives, that I didn't know of? >From the developer's perspective, I would think that they know what alternatives are already there. Nonetheless, code that does (more or less) the same and looks the same doesn't have to be a case of reuse. It is possible it was just written the same, twice! Also, even if it is reused, it can be a slim line between (proper) reuse for some slightly different purpose and (improper) reuse which is actually duplication/redundancy. I didn't study the code like you did, so I'm not saying what is the case here - it may be, it isn't in any way as I describe it. On the other hand, the only thing that seem to differ (that has been mentioned so far) are the keys and the way the windows behave. Isn't that typically something that should be configurable, not reasons to fork? As for the selection feature that Dan mentioned, that seems like something that is generalizable and would benefit all solutions in this category. [1] http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/dumps/buffer_menu.png http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/conf/emacs-init/buffer-menu.el -- underground experts united