bug#5529: `uniquify-buffer-name-style' doesn't exist

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hi, Lennart,

On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 04:56:20PM +0100, Lennart Borgman wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 4:18 PM, Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> wrote:

> > On the Emacs manual page "Uniquify" ("Making Buffer Names Unique"),
> > it says you can change the style of buffer names like foo.c<2> by
> > customising the variable `uniquify-buffer-name-style'.

> > This variable doesn't exist.  It didn't exist in Emacs 22 or Emacs
> > 21 either.

> > My feeling is that it is the code rather than the manual which is at
> > fault.  :-)


> Something is wrong... ;-)

> On line 95 in uniquify.el there is something looking pretty much like
> that variable...

Yes, thanks.  I found that variable by grepping all the sources.  To get
access to it, you've got to do M-: (require uniquify), which is surely
something a "mere" user shouldn't have to do.  There also seems to be
something about it in menu-bar.el, but I haven't quite figured out what.

It just seems very, very strange.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).