I'm an iswitchb user and today I wanted to switch to a buffer which did not exist. After getting used to the comfort of timid completion during file completion the thought occured to me why do I have to tell iswitchb to fall back to file opening in order to open the file? It could show me the matching files from the history automatically, like in case of file opening.
So I added experimental timid support for iswithcb too. With this improvement the difference between buffer switching and file opening started to blur in my emacs usage. As a savehist user most of the files I usually work with are either opened in emacs already or they are in the history (length set to 1000, duplicates filtered out). So when I want to switch to a file I now just use iswitchb and if it's not opened I select it from the completions provided from the file history by timid. find-file is needed only if the file wasn't opened recently in my emacs. Of course, buffer switching is more frequent than file opening (at least in my experience), so the default timid delay is overridden. For iswitchb for the time being I set it to twice the value (1 second) than the default. See the function timid-iswitchb-setup. Since the implementation of iswitchb is similar to ido (I think) those who are interested can add ido support too using the iswitchb implementation as a guideline. http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs/timid.el _______________________________________________ gnu-emacs-sources mailing list gnu-emacs-sources@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-emacs-sources
