From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Helmut Eller Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#33033: 27.0.50; [wishlist] Registers for non-file buffers Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2019 18:15:12 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87lfx437kc.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="232811"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: 33033@debbugs.gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 11 18:22:39 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hlbqA-000y6o-56 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Jul 2019 18:22:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43342 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hlbjr-00028h-Ee for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Thu, 11 Jul 2019 09:15:13 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87lfx437kc.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Thu, 11 Jul 2019 17:38:27 +0200") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:162718 Archived-At: On Thu, Jul 11 2019, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote: > Helmut Eller writes: > >> 1.) It would be nice if the register machinery could also be used for >> switching to buffers that aren't connected to a file but have >> more-or-less fixed names like *shell*, *Backtrace*, or *scratch*. >> >> E.g. (set-register ?s '(buffer "*scratch*")) could set up things so that >> C-x r j s would switch to the *scratch* buffer. > > Can you use registers today to jump to buffers that are connected to > files? I'm wondering why you're singling out non-file buffers here... Yes, I have (set-register ?e '(file . "~/.emacs")) in .emacs. > But in general, it seems to me that these keystrokes aren't that much > more efficient than just C-x b scr RET or something. > >> 2.) Similarly, it would be useful to have a way to switch to a buffer >> based on the buffer's mode. >> >> E.g. (set-register ?l '(mode emacs-lisp)) could switch to the last >> recently used buffer in emacs-lisp mode. > > Hm... I don't quite see the utility here. Well, you can close this bug. Helmut