buffer menu categorisation

buffer menu categorisation

[Noel Yap]

I'm using emacs-21.2.1.

At one time, when I hit C-mouse-1, I got a menu of
buffers categorised by type (eg C, SQL, shell, ...). 
It no longer does that.  How can I get that behaviour
back?

Thanks,
Noel

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Re: buffer menu categorisation

[Phillip Lord]

>>>>> "Noel" == Noel Yap <yap_noel@yahoo.com> writes:

  Noel> I'm using emacs-21.2.1.

  Noel> At one time, when I hit C-mouse-1, I got a menu of buffers
  Noel> categorised by type (eg C, SQL, shell, ...).  It no longer
  Noel> does that.  How can I get that behaviour back?

 
Sounds like the "msb" package to me. If effects both C-mouse-1, and
the buffers menu. 

Phil

Re: buffer menu categorisation

[Noel Yap]

--- Phillip Lord <p.lord@russet.org.uk> wrote:
> Sounds like the "msb" package to me. If effects both
> C-mouse-1, and
> the buffers menu. 

msb-mode is much better than what I have now.  OTOH,
it's not exactly what I had seen before.  I'll use it
for now unless I find something better.

Thanks,
Noel

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Re: buffer menu categorisation

[Noel Yap]

--- Phillip Lord <p.lord@russet.org.uk> wrote:
> Sounds like the "msb" package to me. If effects both
> C-mouse-1, and
> the buffers menu. 

Looking at the code for mouse-buffer-menu, it looks
like it has the capabilities to do what I want (ie
categorise by major mode) which explains why I see it
happening sometimes.  If anyone can help me figure out
how to get this to work all the time, I'd be very
grateful.

Thanks,
Noel

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Re: buffer menu categorisation

[Glenn Morris]

Noel Yap wrote:

> Looking at the code for mouse-buffer-menu, it looks like it has the
> capabilities to do what I want (ie categorise by major mode) which
> explains why I see it happening sometimes.

Have you tried

(setq mouse-buffer-menu-mode-mult 1)

The subdivision into modes is only done when there are "a lot" of buffers,
so this would explain why you only see it sometimes.

"a lot" = some function I can't be bothered to figure out at the moment. :)

Re: buffer menu categorisation

[Phillip Lord]

>>>>> "Noel" == Noel Yap <yap_noel@yahoo.com> writes:

  Noel> --- Phillip Lord <p.lord@russet.org.uk> wrote:
  >> Sounds like the "msb" package to me. If effects both C-mouse-1,
  >> and the buffers menu.

  Noel> Looking at the code for mouse-buffer-menu, it looks like it
  Noel> has the capabilities to do what I want (ie categorise by major
  Noel> mode) which explains why I see it happening sometimes.  If
  Noel> anyone can help me figure out how to get this to work all the
  Noel> time, I'd be very grateful.


(require 'msb)
(msb-mode 1)


seems to work for me. 

Phil

Re: buffer menu categorisation

[Noel Yap]

--- Noel Yap <yap_noel@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Looking at the code for mouse-buffer-menu, it looks
> like it has the capabilities to do what I want (ie
> categorise by major mode) which explains why I see
> it
> happening sometimes.  If anyone can help me figure
> out
> how to get this to work all the time, I'd be very
> grateful.

Hah!  I finally found it!

The following needs to be set:
    (setq mouse-buffer-menu-mode-mult 0)

IMHO, I shouldn't have had to go through the source to
find out about this; it should be mentioned in the
description for mouse-buffer-menu.

Noel

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Re: buffer menu categorisation

[Kai Großjohann]

Noel Yap <yap_noel@yahoo.com> writes:

> IMHO, I shouldn't have had to go through the source to
> find out about this; it should be mentioned in the
> description for mouse-buffer-menu.

Indeed.  Please make a (doc) bug report.

kai
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