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* I wish list-buffers used my current window when it listed my buffers
@ 2013-08-15  2:02 Jay Cotton
  2013-08-15  4:56 ` Bob Proulx
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From: Jay Cotton @ 2013-08-15  2:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs

I've always wished list-buffers used my current window when it listed my buffers. I don't know why, but this rubbed me the wrong way immediately when I learned the command, and I've never been able to shake it.

Years ago I figured out a way to get what I wanted[1], but now I jump from machine to machine and I'm always firing up emacs on distant machines and immediately missing my little hack when I C-x C-b. Continuing with C-x 0 seems like a lot of typing just to to begin navigating to the buffer I'm looking for.

Is there a simple way to get what I want when I'm running emacs away from my customizations? [2][3]

Thanks,
Jay

[1] I was inexperienced with emacs/elisp and I naively re-defun'd 'list-buffers to switch to the buffer instead of creating a new window and displaying it there.

[2] I vaguely recall that there is a special variable for a list of commands that shouldn't use new windows, but I also vaguely recall that I used it and it stopped working for 'list-buffers.

[3] I realize that, taken out of context, this is a laughably complicated question and probably the holy grail of countless migrant emacs users the world over. But here I'm just talking about how to get my buffers to list in the same window, when, for instance, I'm using somebody else's emacs process.




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2013-08-15 12:45   ` Dan Espen
2013-08-15 23:23     ` Jay Cotton
2013-08-16 13:33       ` Michael Heerdegen
2013-08-16 13:33       ` Michael Heerdegen
2013-08-16 22:12         ` Jay Cotton
2013-08-16 23:24           ` Michael Heerdegen
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2013-08-16 14:03         ` Dan Espen
2013-08-16 22:33           ` Jay Cotton
2013-08-16 22:51             ` Bob Proulx
2013-08-16 23:38               ` Jay Cotton
2013-08-20 23:07                 ` Stefan Monnier
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2013-08-21  4:51                   ` Rustom Mody
2013-08-21 22:55                     ` Bob Proulx
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2013-08-22  4:44                       ` Rustom Mody
2013-08-16 23:08             ` Michael Heerdegen
2013-08-16 23:44               ` Jay Cotton
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2013-08-16 23:14               ` Dan Espen
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2013-08-15  3:42 ` Rustom Mody
2013-08-15  4:54   ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-08-15  7:31     ` Thorsten Jolitz
2013-08-15 12:32     ` Michael Heerdegen
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