Re: Two issues with ibuffer
>>>> "jpw" == John Paul Wallington
<jpw(a)shootybangbang.com> writes:
jpw> Adrian.Aichner(a)t-online.de (Adrian Aichner) wrote:
> Hi John Paul,
>
> I like the custom interface for
> Fontification Alist
> a lot!
> I typically want to alias faces of all packages to my well-known
set
> of font-lock-*-face faces (see my patch of today to make this work for
> font-lock-warning-face).
jpw> Thanks for the patch!
> [select face] is great to do that.
>
> However, I cannot do this for
> Ibuffer Title Face
> because it's only available via the ibuffer Faces group which has no
> [select face] interface.
>
> 1. It would be great if the [select face] interface could be added to
> ibuffer Faces group.
jpw> Will do. I'll try tonight.
Great!
> Sorting by major-mode seems to sort "incorrectly".
This is because
> ibuffer displays mode-name, but sorts by major-mode.
>
> 2. Could sorting by major-mode be changed to visually agree with modes
> displayed in ibuffer somehow?
>
> I'm not sure whether it would be better to display major-mode instead
> of mode-name in ibuffer or to sort by mode-name instead of major-mode.
jpw> I don't want to remove functionality. I think it may be better to
You're right.
Ibuffer comes from Gnu Emacs, and you're proting it, right?
jpw> define-ibuffer-sorter mode-name and define-ibuffer-column major-mode.
> The former would break compatibility with old list-buffers
appearance,
> though.
jpw> I think that's OK.
> How about changing from 'ibuffer-do-sort-by-major-mode to
> 'ibuffer-do-sort-by-mode-name?
jpw> I think having both may be better.
Yes.
> Best regards,
>
> Adrian
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