Re: I wish list-buffers used my current window when it listed my buffers

[Dan Espen]

Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> writes:

> Jay Cotton wrote:
>> Dan Espen wrote:
>> > I still think any tweaking of list-buffers is a waste of time.
>> > Just replace it with the electric version.
>> 
>> I hate to pick nits with the guy who seems closest to my POV on this
>> issue, but after using the electric version a little bit I did
>> notice some weirdness.
>> 
>> For instance, it clobbers C-x and a bunch of other huge
>> keybindings. I can't select text for the kill ring. I can't isearch
>> for the buffer I'm looking for.
>
> Those are annoying deficiencies.  Not enough to turn me off to it.
> But definitely annoying that the interface isn't consistent with other
> parts of emacs.  Maybe it would be possible to fix those things.
>
> I have other things about electric-buffer-mode that annoy me.  It has
> nasty highlighting that I disable.  The latest version uses an ugly
> character set that I don't like but haven't been able to disable.

Interesting.

Of course I don't use buffer-list so I was unaware of any issues.

I don't have any issues with the highlighting which I've customized to
suit myself or the fonts (which are identical to all my other fonts).

>> I love the fact that it opens in the same window, but I can imagine
>> the dev group catching a lot of flak if they replaced the
>> 'list-buffers default with something so different as this.
>
> I only wish that they would get in trouble for breaking long standing
> behavior!  Every time a I upgrade to a new release of emacs I spend a
> lot of time fixing things back to the way they were before.  They
> definitely don't seem to be holding back on changing major behaviors.

Maybe something in the customize system to choose would be a suitable
compromise.  Best would be to have one be a compatible super set of the
other so one could be dispensed with.

-- 
Dan Espen