Re: org-iswitchb documentation

[no-spam@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm)]

Stephen Eglen <S.J.Eglen@damtp.cam.ac.uk> writes:

> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Stephen,
>> 
>> I think this is actually a bug.  Since the command is called ...-
>> iswitchb,
>> I am sure the intention was to use iswitchbe.  Later, when we added ido
>> support as well, the function was rewritten using
>> org-icompleting-read, and in this way the iswitchb support was lost.
>
> p.s. one day I might imagine that iswitchb.el might disappear and be
> replaced by ido.el, which might make life easier, assuming that iswitchb
> hasn't diverged too much since Kim first made ido.el.

I haven't really followed iswitchb developments since I branched ido
from it (many full moons ago), so I don't know how much they have
diverted since them. I may have added some stuff on request from users,
but that was also a long time ago...

>
> What do you think Kim - should we just have ido.el in the emacs
>sources, and have iswitchb-mode configure ido.el to just do buffer
>searching?

This sounds like a good idea - but I don't have time to look at it
anytime soon.

I guess the main task (besides migrating any newer features of iswitchb
to ido) is to find out which ido settings should be used for iswitchb
customizations.

>
> (Sorry Kim, this is a thread on emacs-orgmode,
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/26723)
>
> best wishes, Stephen
>
>

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