GNU bug report logs - #36260
27.0.50; isearchb should be reimplemented without iswitchb

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Package: emacs; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@HIDDEN>; dated Mon, 17 Jun 2019 10:18:02 UTC; Maintainer for emacs is bug-gnu-emacs@HIDDEN.

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Subject: Re: bug#36260: 27.0.50;
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  > Yup; those are also solutions, but apparently the maintainers think that
  > iswitchb isn't very useful anymore, but people still use isearchb,
  > apparently.

It seems that iswitchb is still useful for one thing: running isearchb.
Thus, in fact it is not obsolete.

I suggest de-obsoleting iswitchb, unless and until someone 
fixes isearchb not to use it any more.

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Subject: Re: bug#36260: 27.0.50;
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Richard Stallman <rms@HIDDEN> writes:

>   > iswitchb is an obsolete package, but isearchb is implemented on top of
>   > it.  It should be possible to reimplement it on top of any of the
>   > un-obsoleted completion packages (like ido), but it's a complete
>   > reimplementation:
>
> We could declare isearchb obsolete.
> We could declare iswitchb not obsolete.

Yup; those are also solutions, but apparently the maintainers think that
iswitchb isn't very useful anymore, but people still use isearchb,
apparently.

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  > iswitchb is an obsolete package, but isearchb is implemented on top of
  > it.  It should be possible to reimplement it on top of any of the
  > un-obsoleted completion packages (like ido), but it's a complete
  > reimplementation:

We could declare isearchb obsolete.
We could declare iswitchb not obsolete.

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iswitchb is an obsolete package, but isearchb is implemented on top of
it.  It should be possible to reimplement it on top of any of the
un-obsoleted completion packages (like ido), but it's a complete
reimplementation:

41 matches in 36 lines for "iswitchb" in buffer: isearchb.el
      1:;;; isearchb --- a marriage between iswitchb and isearch
     30:;; iswitchb!  It is not intended to replace it, however, as it works
     37:;; employed by iswitchb).  To use it this way, add to your .emacs:
     59:;; iswitchb, using the prefix you've typed so far.  This is handy when
     75:;;   killing iswitchb.el and then trying to switch back is broken
     80:(require 'iswitchb)                     ;FIXME: Don't rely on iswitchb!
     84:  :group 'iswitchb)
    116:(defun isearchb-iswitchb ()
    117:  "isearchb's custom version of the `iswitchb' command.
    119:`iswitchb-read-buffer'."
    122:	 (iswitchb-method 'samewindow)
    123:	 (buf (iswitchb-read-buffer prompt nil nil nil iswitchb-text t)))
    124:    (if (eq iswitchb-exit 'findfile)
    129:	    (iswitchb-visit-buffer buf)
    131:	  (iswitchb-possible-new-buffer buf))))))
    137:    (setq iswitchb-text nil))
    138:  (unless iswitchb-text
    139:    (setq iswitchb-text "")
    140:    (iswitchb-make-buflist nil))
    142:      (setq iswitchb-rescan t
    143:	    iswitchb-text (concat iswitchb-text
    146:  (iswitchb-set-matches)
    147:  (let* ((match (car iswitchb-matches))
    152:	  (isearchb-iswitchb))
    155:	  (message "isearchb: %s%s" iswitchb-text
    156:		   (iswitchb-completions iswitchb-text))
    157:	(if (= 1 (length iswitchb-matches))
    158:	    (message "isearchb: %s (only match)" iswitchb-text)
    159:	  (message "isearchb: %s" iswitchb-text))))))
    178:	(setq iswitchb-text
    179:	      (substring iswitchb-text 0 (1- (length iswitchb-text))))
    180:	(if (= 0 (length iswitchb-text))
    185:	(setq this-command 'isearchb-iswitchb))
    187:	(iswitchb-next-match)
    191:	(iswitchb-prev-match)
    222:    (setq iswitchb-text nil



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