Re: org-iswitchb documentation

[Livin Stephen Sharma <livin.stephen@gmail.com>]

Thanks for mentioning these variables!
 I checked and found that the 'completion' variables were set in a way that gave me the C-c b behavior that i did not like/want.

I have now added this to my org init file:
> (setq org-completion-use-iswitchb t)
> (setq org-completion-use-ido nil)


Regards
Livin Stephen Sharma

On Jun 28, 2010, at 15:49:50 , Stephen Eglen wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> As the author of iswitchb, I was very happy to see M-x org-iswitchb
> included.  Further, it is recommended as a default keybinding in the
> manual:
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 1.3 Activation
> ==============
> 
> ...
>     (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.org\\'" . org-mode))
>     (global-set-key "\C-cl" 'org-store-link)
>     (global-set-key "\C-ca" 'org-agenda)
>     (global-set-key "\C-cb" 'org-iswitchb)
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> So I was surprised when trying org-iswitchb that I didn't see the
> iswitchb feedback when typing buffer names.  I eventually found that I
> needed to set either of the following variables to t so that this would
> work:
> 
>  org-completion-use-iswitchb, org-completion-use-ido
> 
> These variables are not mentioned in the docstrings of either
> org-iswitchb or org-icompleting-read.   Here is a suggested patch to the
> docstring for org-iswitchb.
> 
> Thanks for all the good work, as ever!
> 
> Stephen
> 
> $ git diff org.el
> 
> diff --git a/lisp/org.el b/lisp/org.el
> index 7bb4f45..67e0278 100644
> --- a/lisp/org.el
> +++ b/lisp/org.el
> @@ -15201,7 +15201,13 @@ changes from another.  I believe the procedure must be l
> (defun org-iswitchb (&optional arg)
>   "Use `org-icompleting-read' to prompt for an Org buffer to switch to.
> With a prefix argument, restrict available to files.
> -With two prefix arguments, restrict available buffers to agenda files."
> +With two prefix arguments, restrict available buffers to agenda files.
> +
> +To see feedback whilst typing the buffer name, you can use the
> +facilities of either the ido or iswitchb package.  Set either
> +`org-completion-use-iswitchb' or `org-completion-use-ido' to
> +non-nil and see documentation of those variables for further
> +details."
>   (interactive "P")
>   (let ((blist (cond ((equal arg '(4))  (org-buffer-list 'files))
>                      ((equal arg '(16)) (org-buffer-list 'agenda))
> 
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