ivy-ignore-buffers: question about behaviour

[manuel-uberti]

Hi,

I set this in my setup:

(setq ivy-ignore-buffers '("company-statistics-cache.el"))

From what I understood in this page, it should be the right regexp to refer to company-statistics-cache.el alone.

When I call ivy-switch-buffer now I'm not seeing company-statistics-cache.el in the list of buffers, which is what I am expecting.

However, if I type compa, company-statistics-cache.el appears:

Is this the expected behaviour?

[abo-abo]

Is this the expected behaviour?

It is the programmed behavior. I'm not sure if I programmed it, but it makes some sense: if no buffer at all matches the current input, when taking ivy-ignore-buffers into account, ivy will try again with ivy-ignore-buffers disabled.

If it's not OK with you, propose a different behavior. For instance setting ivy-use-ignore to 'always could display 0 buffers, even if some buffers on ivy-ignore-buffers match.

[manuel-uberti]

I see, thanks for the explanation. Actually, I guess your example with 'always would be the best solution (for my use case, anyway).

But if the current behaviour makes sense, leave it as it is. I don't want to make things more complicated.

[abo-abo]

Have a look, you should now be able to do what you described.

[manuel-uberti]

You're too kind and quick, thank you. It works!