From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "KARR, DAVID" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: How to select one of the buffers that match a substring in "switch-to-buffer"? 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X-Received-From: 209.65.160.92 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:104844 Archived-At: > -----Original Message----- > From: Drew Adams [mailto:drew.adams@oracle.com] > Sent: Monday, June 08, 2015 11:05 AM > To: KARR, DAVID; help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > Subject: RE: How to select one of the buffers that match a > substring in "switch-to-buffer"? >=20 > > "iswitchb", but I think that's been deprecated... > > Is there any way to get the "old and enhanced" behavior? >=20 > `icomplete-mode' is the official replacement for `iswitchb', AFAIK. >=20 > Icicles completion will also give you what you want. Likewise, > `ido-mode'. Also, in the scenario you described (vanilla `C-x b'), > you can type some more chars to continue completing (with TAB). I already have icomplete enabled. It's useless if you've typed a substring= that doesn't represent the start of the file name. Icicles appears to be closer to what I need. I'll have to use it a bit mor= e so my fingers remember whether this gives me what iswitchb gave me before= .