Re: The minibuffer vs. Dialog Boxes (Re: Making XEmacs be more up-to-date)

[Miles Bader]

Hrvoje Niksic <address@hidden> writes:
> > The lack of a command to go to a named buffer is irrelevant; doing
> > that involves so much typing I'd rather select it from the menu.
> 
> De gustibus...  In my case, "much typing" is tempered by the fact that
> you have completion, probably the best UI invention pushed by
> Unix-like systems.

Indeed; I rarely type more than 2-3 characters of a buffer name when
switching to it with C-x b, and I usually have _lots_ of buffers...

It's the sort of thing that may seem very annoying and inconvenient to
someone that doesn't use it, but once you've used it for a while, you
realize, it's really not.

-Miles
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