From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: 9591@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9591: 24.0.50; buffer name completion
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2011 14:44:41 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r5356aqu.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1R7RL3-0008O8-Us@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Sat, 24 Sep 2011 08:28:13 -0400")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> If I type C-x k mes TAB, it completes to ` *message-viewer RMAIL'.
> Killing that buffer was rather a screw.
>
> I just fixed rmail so that won't be a screw. But I think this
> completion is a bug in its own right, and should be fixed too.
>
> I think it is a bug to complete to a buffer name that starts with a
> space, when the user did not type an initial space in the buffer name.
> These buffers are not supposed to be visible unless the user
> specifically asks to see them.
Another fix might be for C-x k to use confirm-nonexistent-file-or-buffer
so that after you type TAB, Emacs prompts with [Confirm] when you try to
exit the minibuffer immediately. `C-x b' already does this.
Maybe it would be good to enable this for "b" interactive codes.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-24 18:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-24 12:28 bug#9591: 24.0.50; buffer name completion Richard Stallman
2011-09-24 18:44 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2011-09-24 23:52 ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-25 0:19 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-25 8:35 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-09-25 17:34 ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-25 17:52 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-26 1:00 ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-25 18:45 ` Drew Adams
2011-09-25 1:04 ` Chong Yidong
2011-09-25 17:34 ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-29 22:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-29 22:39 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-30 21:03 ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-30 6:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-30 19:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-01 14:05 ` Richard Stallman
2011-10-01 14:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-01 20:54 ` Richard Stallman
2011-10-02 0:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-26 1:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-26 5:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-26 7:56 ` Stephen Berman
2011-09-26 8:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-27 17:45 ` Drew Adams
2011-09-27 18:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
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