From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: customized buffer list Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 14:52:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <843a649c-07eb-4333-b36e-156af0d6a8a0@default> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1490737978 28991 195.159.176.226 (28 Mar 2017 21:52:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 21:52:58 +0000 (UTC) To: Kevin Buchs , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 28 23:52:46 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1csz2b-00058v-4z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Mar 2017 23:52:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55433 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1csz2f-0000yL-5T for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Mar 2017 17:52:41 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58208) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1csz2B-0000yE-8u for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Mar 2017 17:52:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1csz27-0001ix-C7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Mar 2017 17:52:11 -0400 Original-Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:46934) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1csz27-0001gj-3O for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Mar 2017 17:52:07 -0400 Original-Received: from aserv0022.oracle.com (aserv0022.oracle.com [141.146.126.234]) by aserp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id v2SLq4I0010995 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 28 Mar 2017 21:52:04 GMT Original-Received: from aserv0122.oracle.com (aserv0122.oracle.com [141.146.126.236]) by aserv0022.oracle.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id v2SLq3t3016506 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=FAIL); Tue, 28 Mar 2017 21:52:04 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0009.oracle.com (abhmp0009.oracle.com [141.146.116.15]) by aserv0122.oracle.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id v2SLq30D020472; Tue, 28 Mar 2017 21:52:03 GMT In-Reply-To: X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.9.1 (1003210) [OL 12.0.6753.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: aserv0022.oracle.com [141.146.126.234] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 141.146.126.69 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:112657 Archived-At: > Today I got inspired to make Emacs work better for me. The buffer list > (C-x C-b) has abbreviated buffer names. Also the size and mode columns > I rarely use. > I began to look for an option to customize the buffer list or an > alternative to it. I started to look at the code for buffer-list() and I > got scared. It is twisted and it uses function names beginning with an > uppercase letter! Couldn't find any customization. I found the well-hidde= n > ibuffer, but that didn't give me what I was seeking. I found Buffer Menu > Plus (https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/BufferMenuPlus) and that allows > hiding the mode. Anyone have recommendations for any other solutions? Buffer-Menu+ lets you customize the buffer-menu display in many ways, including wrt the size and mode fields. Unfortunately, it requires the Emacs 23 (or earlier) version of vanilla buff-menu.el - it does not work with 24.2 or later. Starting with Emacs 24.2, Emacs based buff-menu.el on `tabulated-list-mode', which is more restricted. I have not bothered to update buff-menu+.el to fit with the newer versions of buff-menu.el. I kinda doubt that I will ever bother to do that. (Maybe I should just incorporate the vanilla Emacs 23 buff-menu.el code into buff-menu+.el.) You can probably find the Emacs 23 version of buff-menu.el. If not, ibuffer might give you some of what you want. (Ibuffer has many other features that buff-menu+.el does not have. And buff-menu+.el has features that ibuffer does not have.)