Re: global-set-key has no effect for iswitchb-buffer

[Reiner Steib]

On Sat, Mar 10 2007, Kim F. Storm wrote:

> Reiner Steib <address@hidden> writes:
>> I have iswitchb-mode enabled.  But occasionally I want to use the
>> plain `switch-to-buffer' command which I have bound to `C-c b b'.
>> Recently (well, I haven't updated from CVS for a while) this stopped
>> to work: `C-c b b' also calls `iswitchb-buffer'.
[ (iswitchb-mode 1)
  (global-set-key (kbd "C-c b b") (quote switch-to-buffer)) ]

> Try:
>
> (defalias 'switch-to-buffer-1 'switch-to-buffer)
> and bind C-c b b to switch-to-buffer-1

Well, this is a possible workaround.  But is it correct behavior of
`iswitchb-mode' to shadow the original `switch-to-buffer' command?
AFAICS the documentation  mentions only rebinding of keys:

,----[ (info "(emacs)Iswitchb") ]
|    Iswitchb global minor mode provides convenient switching between
| buffers using substrings of their names.  It replaces the normal
| definitions of `C-x b', `C-x 4 b', `C-x 5 b', and `C-x 4 C-o' with
| alternative commands that are somewhat "smarter."
`----

Bye, Reiner.
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