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Re: I wish list-buffers used my current window when it listed my buffers
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Jay Cotton |
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Re: I wish list-buffers used my current window when it listed my buffers |
Date: |
Thu, 15 Aug 2013 19:23:43 -0400 |
Is it just you and me, or do lots of others also think this behavior makes
better sense? (From a windowing perspective, that is. I can't speak to the
technical pros and cons of electric-buffer-list vs. the traditional
list-buffers, I just like that the former opens in the same window.)
I list buffers *constantly* when I'm working in emacs. I've always got 3 or 4
windows open, and I'm somewhat OCD about keeping things where I want them, and
the problem is that with such an arrangement, I can't always predict where
list-buffers is going to pop up the buffer list. I haven't studied the problem
carefully, and I assume it has something to do with the order in which I
created the windows. But I don't always create the windows in the same order.
Usually my arrangement just sort of evolves as I'm working, and in any event I
can't always predict which window will be used to pop up the buffer.
This difficult-to-predict window behavior has always seemed un-emacs-y to me.
And I've always wondered if I'm somehow "doing it wrong" since it causes me
such grief when my .emacs file isn't available.
Jay
On Aug 15, 2013, at 8:45 AM, Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> wrote:
> Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> writes:
>
>> Jay Cotton wrote:
>>> I've always wished list-buffers used my current window when it
>>> listed my buffers. I don't know why, but this rubbed me the wrong
>>> way immediately when I learned the command, and I've never been able
>>> to shake it.
>>
>> Instead of getting list-buffers into the current directory please try
>> using electric-buffer-list instead. In my opinion it works much nicer
>> and really should be the default instead of list-buffers.
>>
>> (global-set-key "\C-x\C-b" 'electric-buffer-list) ; originally list-buffers
>
> Someone else agrees with you:
>
> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ElectricBufferList
>
> I wonder if a bug report would have any effect.
>
> --
> Dan Espen
- I wish list-buffers used my current window when it listed my buffers, Jay Cotton, 2013/08/14
- Re: I wish list-buffers used my current window when it listed my buffers, Bob Proulx, 2013/08/15
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- Re: I wish list-buffers used my current window when it listed my buffers, Dan Espen, 2013/08/16
- Re: I wish list-buffers used my current window when it listed my buffers, Jay Cotton, 2013/08/16
- Re: I wish list-buffers used my current window when it listed my buffers, Bob Proulx, 2013/08/16
- Re: I wish list-buffers used my current window when it listed my buffers, Jay Cotton, 2013/08/16
- Re: I wish list-buffers used my current window when it listed my buffers, Stefan Monnier, 2013/08/20
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- Re: I wish list-buffers used my current window when it listed my buffers, Rustom Mody, 2013/08/21