From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard M Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: isearch multiple buffers Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:29:36 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87odfcggvl.fsf@jurta.org> <87prp9bae0.fsf@jurta.org> <874p6kuz1f.fsf@jurta.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216611031 3832 80.91.229.12 (21 Jul 2008 03:30:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 03:30:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: t.link@gmx.at, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 21 05:31:19 2008 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 1KKm7K-00073I-KG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 05:31:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57368 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KKm6R-0002Ib-Hq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:30:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KKm6M-0002GX-LA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:30:18 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KKm6M-0002GE-2h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:30:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54488 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KKm6L-0002GB-Ta for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:30:17 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:53267) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KKm6L-0001Qg-MO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:30:17 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1KKm5g-0006QP-7X; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:29:36 -0400 In-reply-to: <874p6kuz1f.fsf@jurta.org> (message from Juri Linkov on Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:38:04 +0300) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: 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:101040 Archived-At: Many Emacs packages already have different ways of specifying a set of buffers. For instance, buff-menu.el and ibuffer.el use the key `m' to mark a set of buffers, and other keys (like `x', `v') to operate on a set of marked buffers. This is making the existing problem worse! We have so many different ways of specifying a set of buffers, and each way corresponds to different things you with the set. The idea of filesets was to try to unify this -- to have various ways of specifying a set, and indepedently, various things you can do with a set. The idea was to have something like the region: there are many ways to set it, and many ways to use it.