From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: New interactive spec Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:44:30 +0200 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87zl6v6z6p.fsf@mail.jurta.org> References: <873a4nqws0.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1257814736 7660 80.91.229.12 (10 Nov 2009 00:58:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:58:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Didier Verna , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 10 01:58:48 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1N7f4K-0001mT-34 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:58:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36628 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N7f4J-00075L-Lj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:58:47 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N7f3T-0006gO-Ig for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:57:55 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N7f3P-0006fX-F7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:57:55 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=51918 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N7f3P-0006fU-A1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:57:51 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp-out1.starman.ee ([85.253.0.3]:54589 helo=mx1.starman.ee) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N7f3O-0005Is-RE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:57:51 -0500 X-Virus-Scanned: by Amavisd-New at mx1.starman.ee Original-Received: from mail.starman.ee (62.65.211.91.cable.starman.ee [62.65.211.91]) by mx1.starman.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id F25CB3F417B; Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:57:42 +0200 (EET) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:03:35 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:116770 Archived-At: >>> I've recently modified the behavior of switch-to-buffer in XEmacs so >>> that the completion mechanism doesn't include the current buffer. In >>> doing so, I figured it would be generally useful to have an >>> interactive spec for that (meaning "a buffer except the current >>> one"). I was thinking g/G because that's the next thing available to >>> us, but I'm wondering if GNU Emacs already uses it, or if you'd have >>> another suggestion. > >> "G" is already taken, but "g" would be free. > >> G -- Possibly nonexistent file name, defaulting to just directory >> name. > > How important is it to have a letter for it? I see a tendency in the opposite direction - replacing letters with equivalent Lisp code to be able to add more functionality. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/