Re: binding ibuffer to C-x C-b by default

[Sergei Organov]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden> writes:

> Sergei Organov writes:
>
>  > Another annoyance is that pushing <down> at the end of ibuffer wraps
>  > around to the beginning of it (and <up> also wraps at the beginning to
>  > the end). No other mode of emacs behaves like this, right?
>
> Depends on how close "like" needs to be.

Yeah, I meant I never experienced any other buffer where pressing <down>
at the end of buffer brings me to the beginning of the buffer.

Actually, it's wrapping on "mark" commands that really annoys me.
Probably I should learn something like
`ibuffer-mark-to-the-end-of-buffer', that doesn't seem to exist, but I
used to do it by just holding corresponding key (e.g., 'D'). (Yes, I
know about 'ibuffer-mark-old-buffers').

BTW, there is another inconsistency in ibuffer: C-n and <down> are
bound to different functions that also seems to be unique property of
ibuffer.

> Specifically, isearch wraps if you repeat a search immediately after
> getting a buffer-boundary error. That's not an arrow key, and you do
> have to "insist" to get the wrapping behavior, but for my money that's
> similar behavior.

Yes it's similar, but not similarly annoying, as one pays much more
attention to the screen at every key-press during search compared to
simple <down> in the buffer.

> In the case of search it's very useful.

Exactly. But it's useless and annoying in ibuffer as if I want to get to
the beginning (or end) of the buffer, I always know how to do it, while
'isearch' doesn't have a way to get to the first/last occurrence in the
buffer easily.

> Rings (kill rings, completion history) are another example.

Yes, but they are not buffers either, though 'yank-pop' wrapping is also
annoying, IMHO, and neither *Completions* buffer nor minibuffer history
wraps for me.

-- 
Sergei.