From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Richard Copley <rcopley@gmail.com>
Cc: 12916@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12916: 24.2; Completion for "C-x b" does not include current buffer
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 09:22:21 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvlidx4rfo.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPM58ogXcBv+bXA09+Z_V=2ngsuJPgoo9ddH1_KH8OFwuZcDbA@mail.gmail.com>
> In older Emacs versions (*), to switch buffer, I could type "C-x b",
> followed by a unique prefix of the desired buffer's name, then "TAB
> RET". This routine no longer works. Specifically, the completion fails
> when the desired buffer is already the current buffer. So before I can
> switch, I first have to work out which window is selected and whether
> its buffer is the one I want.
Hmm... I'd expect the user to know in which buffer she is when she hits
C-x b. Can you give us a few more hints about your use-case to try and
help me understand why you don't know in which buffer you are when you
hit C-x b?
> In my opinion this was a bad decision, and I think we should go back
> to using "B" as the interactive spec for switch-to-buffer. Others
> might disagree, so would it be possible to add a custom variable to
> control whether the current buffer is included in the list of completions?
I'm not sure this deserves such a customization variable. But in any
case, in the mean time, you can get back the previous behavior with the
following hack:
(defadvice internal-complete-buffer-except (around rc-all-buffers activate)
(setq ad-return-value #'internal-complete-buffer))
Maybe a cleaner workaround might be:
(put 'switch-to-buffer 'interactive-form
'(interactive "BSwitch to buffer: "))
-- Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-19 14:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-17 15:44 bug#12916: 24.2; Completion for "C-x b" does not include current buffer Richard Copley
2012-11-19 14:22 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
[not found] ` <CAPM58ogCn5hi6qskV9XTqJoqm23fanS661ajPkRdfES6_Hg=-A@mail.gmail.com>
2012-11-19 20:10 ` bug#12916: Fwd: " Richard Copley
2012-11-19 21:32 ` Richard Stallman
2012-11-21 8:14 ` Richard Stallman
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-09-25 17:34 bug#9598: 24.0.50; completion goes too far Richard Stallman
2011-09-25 18:47 ` Drew Adams
2011-09-26 1:00 ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-26 6:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-26 10:42 ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-26 11:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-26 21:12 ` Richard Stallman
2022-02-06 0:05 ` bug#12916: 24.2; Completion for "C-x b" does not include current buffer Lars Ingebrigtsen
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