From: Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs mode line suggestions
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:20:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <gfpoap$iqj$3@news.motzarella.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.518.1226859137.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Ian Eure <ian@digg.com> writes:
> On Nov 15, 2008, at 5:54 PM, Xah wrote:
>
>> On Nov 15, 1:23 am, Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> wrote:
>>>> From:Xah<xah...@gmail.com>
>>>> Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:18:31 -0800 (PST)
>>>>
>>>> • clicking on the file name should not switch buffer.
>>>
>>> That's not the file name, that's the buffer name.
>>
>> please get the over all picture, not bone picking.
>>
>>> As for what it should do, I don't see why your preference is better
>>> than the current one. Popping a menu requires another click to
>>> actually select a buffer, whereas the current behavior does it in one
>>> click.
>>
>> typically, a user has several user buffers open, and as far as i guess
>> many programers who use emacs extensively has like hundreds of buffers
>> open. Cycling them one by one is not much useful.
>>
>> Counting emacs's own buffers, those info, messages, scratch,
>> completions, grep output, shell output, C-h f and friends output,
>> dictionary lookup output, ispell output, man page output ... etc...
>> these are typically looked once and not useful afterwards. Switching
>> and cycling thru them are not much useful.
> I basically agree with this stuff. I doubt many hardcore Emacs users
> choose to switch buffers this way, which requires using the mouse. And
> the part of the behavior that is least useful is that the switch is
> blind - you don't know what buffer you're going to get unless you know
> the current state of the buffer-list.
>
> My objection is to the idea that you don't want star buffers in the
> list. These are also used for interaction with external processes:
> *ssh: host*, *SQL: foo*, *Twit-recent*, *compilation*, *shell*,
> *Python*. It seems ill advised to exclude those from the list.
The kind of user that might want to see them is clued in enough to use a
prefix or customise their setup accordingly.
I must say I agree with Xah and the "well thats the way its always been"
kind of reply is not constructive in the slightest.
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[not found] <mailman.215.1226562978.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-14 23:18 ` emacs mode line suggestions Xah
2008-11-15 1:02 ` xahlee
2008-11-15 9:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.423.1226741023.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-16 1:54 ` Xah
2008-11-16 18:12 ` Ian Eure
2008-11-18 9:39 ` Kevin Rodgers
2008-11-18 23:25 ` Xavier Maillard
[not found] ` <mailman.518.1226859137.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-16 18:20 ` Richard Riley [this message]
2008-11-16 23:12 ` Ian Eure
2008-11-17 8:37 ` Paul R
2008-11-17 15:45 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.604.1226937124.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-17 16:11 ` Richard Riley
2008-11-17 18:53 ` Drew Adams
2008-11-17 19:10 ` Richard Riley
2008-11-17 19:57 ` Drew Adams
2008-11-17 20:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.621.1226951870.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-17 21:42 ` Richard Riley
2008-11-18 0:55 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.641.1226969742.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-18 1:08 ` Richard Riley
2008-11-18 2:55 ` Drew Adams
2008-11-17 23:37 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-11-18 7:52 ` Paul R
2008-11-18 13:48 ` Alan Mackenzie
[not found] ` <mailman.543.1226877138.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-16 23:35 ` Richard Riley
2008-11-16 22:45 ` Xah
2008-11-16 21:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.536.1226871605.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-16 23:17 ` Xah
2008-11-17 20:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-17 23:46 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-11-18 0:31 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-11-18 9:32 ` Kevin Rodgers
2008-11-18 9:58 ` Alan Mackenzie
[not found] ` <mailman.633.1226964831.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-18 9:46 ` Fabrice Niessen
[not found] ` <mailman.623.1226954396.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-17 22:09 ` Xah
2008-11-18 2:33 ` B. T. Raven
2008-11-18 3:24 ` Xah
2008-11-18 4:58 ` B. T. Raven
2008-11-18 6:54 ` Richard Riley
2008-11-18 4:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
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