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icomplete-mode vs. iswitchb
From: |
Alex Schroeder |
Subject: |
icomplete-mode vs. iswitchb |
Date: |
Wed, 04 Dec 2013 22:32:13 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (darwin) |
Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
> Iswitchb is marked obsolete in the trunk: you can get the same
> functionality with icomplete-mode.
How does one achieve that? When I tried icomplete-mode, I was unable to
figure out how to do that.
(progn
(iswitchb-mode 0)
(icomplete-mode 1)
(get-buffer-create "mytesta")
(get-buffer-create "mytestb")
(get-buffer-create "yourtesta")
(get-buffer-create "yourtestb"))
1. How to pick the first item on the list without typing a lot? I want
to type a substring RET to pick the most recent buffer. With
icomplete-mode I type t e s t TAB and get test*. TAB gets me a
*Completion* buffer at which point I need to read all of them, look
for the bold characters, pick the right one (a), find the key on the
keyboard, press that, and even worse, hit C-a and type additional
characters (my) at the beginingg of the string in order to switch to
mytesta.
2. How to quickly rotate through the list? I want to type t e s t C-s
C-s C-s or equivalent to pick the third item on the list. With
icomplete-mode I feel like trying M-p, M-n, <up>, <down>, <left>,
<right>...
A generic completion should also sort the entry by "most recently used"
and I'm not sure how icomplete can do this. iswitchb-mode still feels a
lot more useful to me.
I'm back to using iswitchb-mode...
(progn
(iswitchb-mode 1)
(icomplete-mode 0))
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- icomplete-mode vs. iswitchb,
Alex Schroeder <=
- Re: icomplete-mode vs. iswitchb, Stefan Monnier, 2013/12/04
- Re: icomplete-mode vs. iswitchb, Stefan Monnier, 2013/12/04
- Re: icomplete-mode vs. iswitchb, Alex Schroeder, 2013/12/05
- Re: icomplete-mode vs. iswitchb, Bozhidar Batsov, 2013/12/05
- Re: icomplete-mode vs. iswitchb, Stefan Monnier, 2013/12/05
- Re: icomplete-mode vs. iswitchb, Mathias Dahl, 2013/12/08
- Re: icomplete-mode vs. iswitchb, Stefan Monnier, 2013/12/09
- Re: icomplete-mode vs. iswitchb, Mathias Dahl, 2013/12/10
- Re: icomplete-mode vs. iswitchb, Stefan Monnier, 2013/12/11
- Re: icomplete-mode vs. iswitchb, Mathias Dahl, 2013/12/22