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RE: How to select one of the buffers that match a substring in "switch-t
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KARR, DAVID |
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RE: How to select one of the buffers that match a substring in "switch-to-buffer"? |
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Mon, 8 Jun 2015 19:09:22 +0000 |
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tassilo Horn [mailto:tsdh@gnu.org]
> Sent: Monday, June 08, 2015 11:59 AM
> To: KARR, DAVID
> Cc: Drew Adams; help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: How to select one of the buffers that match a
> substring in "switch-to-buffer"?
>
> "KARR, DAVID" <dk068x@att.com> writes:
>
> >> `icomplete-mode' is the official replacement for `iswitchb',
> AFAIK.
> >>
> >> Icicles completion will also give you what you want. Likewise,
> >> `ido-mode'. Also, in the scenario you described (vanilla `C-x
> b'),
> >> you can type some more chars to continue completing (with TAB).
> >
> > I already have icomplete enabled. It's useless if you've typed a
> > substring that doesn't represent the start of the file name.
>
> But it should work for buffers, no?
>
> If so, the reason why it doesn't work for file name completion is
> because there, emacs doesn't use substring completion. But you can
> configure it to do so.
>
> ,----[ C-h v completion-category-overrides RET ]
> | completion-category-overrides is a variable defined in
> ‘minibuffer.el’.
> | Its value is nil.
> |
> | Documentation:
> | List of category-specific user overrides for completion styles.
> | Each override has the shape (CATEGORY . ALIST) where ALIST is
> | an association list that can specify properties such as:
> | - ‘styles’: the list of ‘completion-styles’ to use for that
> category.
> | - ‘cycle’: the ‘completion-cycle-threshold’ to use for that
> category.
> | Categories are symbols such as ‘buffer’ and ‘file’, used when
> | completing buffer and file names, respectively.
> | This overrides the defaults specified in ‘completion-category-
> defaults’.
> `----
Would this variable have changed after I installed Icicles? Its present value
is "((buffer (styles basic substring)))".
In any case, installing Icicles appears to give me what I need.
- How to select one of the buffers that match a substring in "switch-to-buffer"?, KARR, DAVID, 2015/06/08
- Re: How to select one of the buffers that match a substring in "switch-to-buffer"?, Dmitry Gutov, 2015/06/08
- RE: How to select one of the buffers that match a substring in "switch-to-buffer"?, Drew Adams, 2015/06/08
- RE: How to select one of the buffers that match a substring in "switch-to-buffer"?, Drew Adams, 2015/06/08
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- Re: How to select one of the buffers that match a substring in "switch-to-buffer"?, Stefan Monnier, 2015/06/08
- RE: How to select one of the buffers that match a substring in "switch-to-buffer"?, Drew Adams, 2015/06/08
- Message not available
- Re: How to select one of the buffers that match a substring in "switch-to-buffer"?, Stefan Monnier, 2015/06/08