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Re: I wish list-buffers used my current window when it listed my buffers
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Dan Espen |
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Re: I wish list-buffers used my current window when it listed my buffers |
Date: |
Fri, 16 Aug 2013 19:14:57 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1 (gnu/linux) |
Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> writes:
> Jay Cotton wrote:
>> Dan Espen wrote:
>> > I still think any tweaking of list-buffers is a waste of time.
>> > Just replace it with the electric version.
>>
>> I hate to pick nits with the guy who seems closest to my POV on this
>> issue, but after using the electric version a little bit I did
>> notice some weirdness.
>>
>> For instance, it clobbers C-x and a bunch of other huge
>> keybindings. I can't select text for the kill ring. I can't isearch
>> for the buffer I'm looking for.
>
> Those are annoying deficiencies. Not enough to turn me off to it.
> But definitely annoying that the interface isn't consistent with other
> parts of emacs. Maybe it would be possible to fix those things.
>
> I have other things about electric-buffer-mode that annoy me. It has
> nasty highlighting that I disable. The latest version uses an ugly
> character set that I don't like but haven't been able to disable.
Interesting.
Of course I don't use buffer-list so I was unaware of any issues.
I don't have any issues with the highlighting which I've customized to
suit myself or the fonts (which are identical to all my other fonts).
>> I love the fact that it opens in the same window, but I can imagine
>> the dev group catching a lot of flak if they replaced the
>> 'list-buffers default with something so different as this.
>
> I only wish that they would get in trouble for breaking long standing
> behavior! Every time a I upgrade to a new release of emacs I spend a
> lot of time fixing things back to the way they were before. They
> definitely don't seem to be holding back on changing major behaviors.
Maybe something in the customize system to choose would be a suitable
compromise. Best would be to have one be a compatible super set of the
other so one could be dispensed with.
--
Dan Espen
- Re: I wish list-buffers used my current window when it listed my buffers, (continued)
- Re: I wish list-buffers used my current window when it listed my buffers, Jay Cotton, 2013/08/16
- Re: I wish list-buffers used my current window when it listed my buffers, Bob Proulx, 2013/08/16
- Re: I wish list-buffers used my current window when it listed my buffers, Jay Cotton, 2013/08/16
- Re: I wish list-buffers used my current window when it listed my buffers, Stefan Monnier, 2013/08/20
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- Re: I wish list-buffers used my current window when it listed my buffers, Rustom Mody, 2013/08/21
- Re: I wish list-buffers used my current window when it listed my buffers, Bob Proulx, 2013/08/21
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- Re: I wish list-buffers used my current window when it listed my buffers, Rustom Mody, 2013/08/22
- Re: I wish list-buffers used my current window when it listed my buffers, Michael Heerdegen, 2013/08/16
- Re: I wish list-buffers used my current window when it listed my buffers, Jay Cotton, 2013/08/16
- Re: I wish list-buffers used my current window when it listed my buffers, Jay Cotton, 2013/08/16
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- Re: I wish list-buffers used my current window when it listed my buffers,
Dan Espen <=
Re: I wish list-buffers used my current window when it listed my buffers, Samuel Wales, 2013/08/18