GNU bug report logs - #12916
24.2; Completion for "C-x b" does not include current buffer

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Richard Copley <rcopley <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 15:46:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 9598

Found in versions 23.0, 24.0.50, 24.2

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Marcin Borkowski <mbork <at> mbork.pl>
Cc: 12916 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 9598 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12916: bug#9598: Status: C-x b completion should also display current buffer.
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2016 18:56:11 +0200
> From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork <at> mbork.pl>
> Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2016 15:30:19 +0100
> Cc: 12916 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> again the same question: what to do with this bug report?  The behavior
> is still what a few people (including RMS) dislike, it is easy to
> override it (although there is no mention of that in the manual, which
> is very bad IMHO!), it also seems to be solved in Ivy (I don't know
> about other completion frameworks - I would bet Icicles have a knob for
> that, because Icicles have a knob for everything; Helm anybody?).
> 
> My personal suggestion would be either add a user option or (as a last
> resort) write about the hack mentioned here in the manual, in the node
> (info "(emacs)Select buffer").

If someone wants to work on adding such an option, please do.  We can
add that on master.

One caveat: updating the documentation is part of the job.

TIA




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