Re: binding ibuffer to C-x C-b by default

[David Kastrup]

Deniz Dogan <address@hidden> writes:

> 2010/10/7 Dan Nicolaescu <address@hidden>:
>>
>> This was discussed briefly a few years ago and Stefan (and other
>> people) agreed with it: how about we map ibuffer to C-x C-b by default
>> in Emacs-24?
>>
>> ibuffer is a superset of list-buffers, and it provides many things
>> that list-buffers does not.
>>
>>
>
> If a significant majority of experienced Emacs users prefer to use
> ibuffer instead of list-buffers (which is what I believe) what is the
> problem with making this change?

Thinking like a suitor rather than a programmer.

Making a choice between two different feature sets that both have
deficiencies is the wrong thing to do if we can instead create a version
that does not contain the particular weaknesses of either.

A bit more of the Frankenstein spirit, if you please.

-- 
David Kastrup