Update commentary to include new function iswitchb-exclude-nonmatching.

2 files changed, 22 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index 4694628b8c8..cc76c713f49 100644
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2002-04-13  Pavel Jan,Bm(Bk  <Pavel@Janik.cz>
+
+        * iswitchb.el: Update commentary to include new function
+        iswitchb-exclude-nonmatching.
+
 2002-04-12  John Wiegley  <johnw@gnu.org>
 
         * eshell/esh-ext.el (eshell-script-interpreter): Fix for CRLF
@@ -15,7 +20,7 @@
 
 2002-04-12  Francesco Potorti`  <pot@gnu.org>
 
-        * comint.el (comint-password-prompt-regexp): Match" SMB password".
+        * comint.el (comint-password-prompt-regexp): Match " SMB password".
 
 2002-04-11  Stefan Monnier  <monnier@cs.yale.edu>
 
diff --git a/lisp/iswitchb.el b/lisp/iswitchb.el
index aece0d2dea0..0b283d0ae77 100644
--- a/lisp/iswitchb.el
+++ b/lisp/iswitchb.el
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@
 
 ;; Using iswitchb for other completion tasks.
 
-;; Kin Cho (kin@neoscale.com sent the following suggestion to use
+;; Kin Cho (kin@neoscale.com) sent the following suggestion to use
 ;; iswitchb for other completion tasks.  
 ;;
 ;; (defun my-icompleting-read (prompt choices)
@@ -198,6 +198,21 @@
 ;; (my-icompleting-read "Which fruit? " '
 ;;                   ("apple" "pineapple" "pear" "bananas" "oranges") )
 
+;; Kin Cho also suggested the following defun.  Once you have a subset of
+;; matching buffers matching your current prompt, you can then press
+;; e.g. C-o to restrict matching to those buffers and clearing the prompt:
+;; (defun iswitchb-exclude-nonmatching()
+;;    "Make iswitchb work on only the currently matching names."
+;;    (interactive)
+;;    (setq iswitchb-buflist iswitchb-matches)
+;;    (setq iswitchb-rescan t)
+;;    (delete-minibuffer-contents))
+;;
+;; (add-hook 'iswitchb-define-mode-map-hook
+;;        '(lambda () (define-key 
+;;                      iswitchb-mode-map "\C-o" 
+;;                      'iswitchb-exclude-nonmatching)))
+
 ;; Other lisp packages extend iswitchb behaviour to other tasks.  See
 ;; ido.el (by Kim Storm) and mcomplete.el (Yuji Minejima).