Re: close buffer with keystroke?

Re: close buffer with keystroke?

[Dave Footitt]

On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 14:26:28 -0700, Jeff D. Hamann wrote:

> Now I'm not *trying* to post flamebait, but is it possible to close/kill a
> buffer with a keystroke in emacs/ntemacs? I find I get a gazillion buffers
> open and have to close them using the mouse. It's a drag.

Do you mean C-x k ?

I use `ibuffer' quite a lot as a buffer clean-up tool, particularly
helpful are its marking buffers based on a regular expression (eg, all C++
buffers can be marked and killed)


Dave

Re: close buffer with keystroke?

[Dave Footitt]

On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 18:14:12 -0400, Dan Anderson wrote:

> What does the `' mean?  (Or is it just a typo?)

Hmm.  It's supposed to be quote marks, hopefully it appeared as such! 
I'm using pan as my newsreader for the first time tonight, so it might
have got that wrong.


Dave

close buffer with keystroke?

[Jeff D. Hamann]

Now I'm not *trying* to post flamebait, but is it possible to close/kill a
buffer with a keystroke in emacs/ntemacs? I find I get a gazillion buffers
open and have to close them using the mouse. It's a drag.

Jeff.


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Re: close buffer with keystroke?

[Dan Anderson]

C-x k  ... If the buffer is different then the file on disk it will
prompt you to save.

-Dan

Re: close buffer with keystroke?

[Dan Anderson]

> `ibuffer'

What does the `' mean?  (Or is it just a typo?)

Thanks,

-Dan

Re: close buffer with keystroke?

[Dan Anderson]

> Hmm.  It's supposed to be quote marks, hopefully it appeared as such! 
> I'm using pan as my newsreader for the first time tonight, so it might
> have got that wrong.

Oh ok.  I just asked because many programing languages and other things
attach special functions and commands to the ` key -- so I didn't know
if you were doing something bizarre.  :-D

-Dan

Re: close buffer with keystroke?

[Alan Mackenzie]

Jeff D. Hamann <jeff_hamann@hamanndonald.com> wrote on Tue, 16 Sep 2003
14:26:28 -0700:
> Now I'm not *trying* to post flamebait, but is it possible to
> close/kill a buffer with a keystroke in emacs/ntemacs? I find I get a
> gazillion buffers open and have to close them using the mouse. It's a
> drag.

Jeff, it's possible to do _anything_ in Emacs without a mouse.  I use
Emacs in a Linux console where the mouse is non-functional, and I've
never felt handicapped because of it.

C-x k will kill a specific buffer, defaulting to the current one.

If you've got a few hundred buffers to kill at once, start with C-x C-b
`list-buffers' to, well, list your buffers, go that list (say, with C-x
o), and type d on each buffer you want rid of.  This will mark each such
with a big D.  Finally, type X, and they're all gone.  [If you type a d
in the wrong place, go back there and type u to rub it out.]

> Jeff D. Hamann

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(like "aa"), remove half of them (leaving, say, "a").

Re: close buffer with keystroke?

[marcuirl]

Dan Anderson <dan@mathjunkies.com> writes:

>> Hmm.  It's supposed to be quote marks, hopefully it appeared as such! 
>> I'm using pan as my newsreader for the first time tonight, so it might
>> have got that wrong.
>
> Oh ok.  I just asked because many programing languages and other things
> attach special functions and commands to the ` key -- so I didn't know
> if you were doing something bizarre.  :-D

Theres been a  whole discussion on some other newsgroup as to why *nix
people like `blahblahblah' and not  'blahblahblah' or  "blahblahblah"

Its personal I guess!

marcu
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Re: close buffer with keystroke?

[Jeff D. Hamann]

Thanks. That's just the info I was looking for. Now I have to figure out how
to configure emacs so that when I hit the delete key (when using emacs over
ssh) the characters delete instead of some help prompt, but I know that info
is in the FAQ.

Sorry for the simple post.

Thanks again.
Jeff.

"Alan Mackenzie" <none@example.invalid> wrote in message
news:hk39kb.h6.ln@acm.acm...
> Jeff D. Hamann <jeff_hamann@hamanndonald.com> wrote on Tue, 16 Sep 2003
> 14:26:28 -0700:
> > Now I'm not *trying* to post flamebait, but is it possible to
> > close/kill a buffer with a keystroke in emacs/ntemacs? I find I get a
> > gazillion buffers open and have to close them using the mouse. It's a
> > drag.
>
> Jeff, it's possible to do _anything_ in Emacs without a mouse.  I use
> Emacs in a Linux console where the mouse is non-functional, and I've
> never felt handicapped because of it.
>
> C-x k will kill a specific buffer, defaulting to the current one.
>
> If you've got a few hundred buffers to kill at once, start with C-x C-b
> `list-buffers' to, well, list your buffers, go that list (say, with C-x
> o), and type d on each buffer you want rid of.  This will mark each such
> with a big D.  Finally, type X, and they're all gone.  [If you type a d
> in the wrong place, go back there and type u to rub it out.]
>
> > Jeff D. Hamann
>
> -- 
> Alan Mackenzie (Munich, Germany)
> Email: aacm@muuc.dee; to decode, wherever there is a repeated letter
> (like "aa"), remove half of them (leaving, say, "a").
>

Re: close buffer with keystroke?

[Oliver Scholz]

marcuirl <marcuirl@imap.no2this.cc> writes:

> Dan Anderson <dan@mathjunkies.com> writes:
>
>>> Hmm.  It's supposed to be quote marks, hopefully it appeared as such! 
>>> I'm using pan as my newsreader for the first time tonight, so it might
>>> have got that wrong.
>>
>> Oh ok.  I just asked because many programing languages and other things
>> attach special functions and commands to the ` key -- so I didn't know
>> if you were doing something bizarre.  :-D
>
> Theres been a  whole discussion on some other newsgroup as to why *nix
> people like `blahblahblah' and not  'blahblahblah' or  "blahblahblah"
>
> Its personal I guess!
[...]

I don't know about other POSIX or non-POSIX programs. But in an Emacs
context ` and ' are used by convention when referring to symbols.

[Personally I detest it, but I don't have to like a convention in
order to follow it.]

    Oliver
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Re: close buffer with keystroke?

[Nicolas Neuss]

I have this line in my .emacs

(global-set-key [f8] 'kill-this-buffer)

Nicolas.

Re: close buffer with keystroke?

[Kai Grossjohann]

"Jeff D. Hamann" <jeff_hamann@hamanndonald.com> writes:

> Thanks. That's just the info I was looking for. Now I have to figure out how
> to configure emacs so that when I hit the delete key (when using emacs over
> ssh) the characters delete instead of some help prompt, but I know that info
> is in the FAQ.

Do you have a configurable terminal?  If so, it is best to configure
that to send DEL (that's ascii character 127) when you hit the
backspace key, and to send ESC [ 3 ~ (four characters) when you hit
the delete key.  That will be recognized by Emacs automatically, I
believe.

(You also might have to "stty erase ^?" from the shell where ^? is
obtained by typing C-v and then the backspace key.  I hope.)

Emacs calls it DEL, the shell calls it erase, everybody else calls it
backspace...  Talk about confusion.

Re: close buffer with keystroke?

[Kai Grossjohann]

Dan Anderson <dan@mathjunkies.com> writes:

> Oh ok.  I just asked because many programing languages and other things
> attach special functions and commands to the ` key -- so I didn't know
> if you were doing something bizarre.  :-D

Actually, both ` and ' have special meanings in Emacs Lisp, but it is
conventional to use this combination in this way as quotes.  Type,
for example, C-h k C-n.  Then you will see a lot of such quotes, eg.
in `next-line-add-newlines'.

Maybe an analog could be Java.  In Java code, < is less than and > is
greater than, but in a Javadoc comment, <foo> is an HTML tag.

Does that make sense?