RE: [External] : Re: Proposal: new default bindings for winner and windmove

[Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>]

> Off topic, but in theory the same bindings could be used for a
> "transient" command which (perhaps with a help of repeat-mode) keeps
> rendering the list of buffers e.g. using Ibuffer with the current
> highlighted, until you press something other than <left> or <right>.
> 
> Although, to keep the contents of the current buffer displayed, the
> buffers menu would have to be in some sort of popup.

(As you say, OT.)

With Icicles, when you use any command that
acts on a buffer, prompting for its name with
completion, you can cycle among the choices
matching your current minibuffer input (act
on the buffers or just show info about them).

When you cycle, the mode-line of buffer
*Completions* shows short help/info about the
current candidate buffer for 5 sec (default).

The info shown for a buffer is its mode name,
size in bytes, and file visited (if any):

 Mode: Emacs-Lisp, Bytes: 25429, File: ~/foo/bar.el

Not quite the same as showing Ibuffer, but
similar to what you describe.

This is in fact general, for any kind of
completion candidates.  The info for other
kinds of candidates is different.  For things
with doc strings it's typically the first
line of the candidate's doc string.