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From: Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: C-x C-b (switch-to-buffer) smarter suggestions?
Date: 11 Feb 2010 18:59:35 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrnhn8ksn.1qf.grahn+nntp@frailea.sa.invalid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.926.1265729432.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

On Tue, 2010-02-09, Richard Riley wrote:
> Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> writes:
>
>> On Mon, 2010-02-08, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>>> Let's say I have a dozen buffers, including foo.c and foo.h.  I am in
>>>> foo.c but I want to jump to foo.h. So I do
>>>
>>>>   C-x C-b foo TAB
>>>
>>>> But this doesn't complete to foo.h, because foo.c is also an
>>>> alternative -- even though that's the buffer I'm explicitly trying to
>>>> switch *from*.
>>>
>>> Apparently, you haven't yet upgraded to Emacs-23.
>>
>> So you're implying that Emacs 23 fixes exactly that, or that it
>> reworks the buffer selection interface completely?
>>
>> Actually I still use Emacs 21. Emacs 22 is also available as part of
>> Debian Linux, but I gain more by sticking to 21, which is the one
>> available at work (semi-officially available -- officially we are
>> stuck with 20).
>
> Interesting. I find it astonishing that anyone would insist on using
> such an old version. Are your customisations so incompatible with newer
> Emacs? The call of the daemon and anti aliased fonts would be enough to
> move for most .. Or do you just have an intransigent BOFH?

I don't know, but for the Emacs 20 part (20.7, installed on Solaris in
2000 according to time stamps) my guess is a combination of:

- lack of attention to the Solaris environment when more and more
  work is done on Linux
- outsourcing of BOFH activities
- hard to know what problems an upgrade would cause for hundreds of
  users; hard to know exactly *who* they are and what features they
  have come to rely on
- maintaining an existing development environment = bad career move;
  implementing new, complex, proprietary and expensive = good move
- the programmers who really care install their own newer Emacs and
  tell noone about it
- Emacs 20 is still a very good text editor

I don't think it's uncommon for organizations to end up in that
situation, unfortunately.  But I wouldn't want to live at the bleeding
edge either ...

/Jorgen

-- 
  // Jorgen Grahn <grahn@  Oo  o.   .  .
\X/     snipabacken.se>   O  o   .


  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-02-11 18:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-06  8:03 C-x C-b (switch-to-buffer) smarter suggestions? Jorgen Grahn
2010-02-07  8:47 ` Alberto Luaces
     [not found] ` <mailman.826.1265532477.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-02-07 22:54   ` Jorgen Grahn
2010-02-08  2:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-02-08 12:17   ` Jorgen Grahn
2010-02-08 17:38     ` Stefan Monnier
2010-02-08 18:23       ` Teemu Likonen
2010-02-11 10:35       ` Jorgen Grahn
2010-02-11 14:48         ` Richard Riley
2010-02-09 15:15     ` Richard Riley
     [not found]     ` <mailman.926.1265729432.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-02-11 18:59       ` Jorgen Grahn [this message]
2010-02-08  5:55 ` Dmitri Minaev
     [not found] ` <mailman.852.1265608552.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-02-08 11:45   ` Jorgen Grahn
2010-02-10  6:16     ` Dmitri Minaev
2010-02-09  4:46 ` Kevin Rodgers
     [not found] ` <mailman.897.1265690809.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-02-11 22:45   ` Jorgen Grahn
2010-02-12  4:42     ` Kevin Rodgers

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