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From: Aaron Meurer <asmeurer@gmail.com>
To: BDB <noemail@yahoo.com>
Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Hide extraneous buffers?
Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 16:54:46 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKgW=6+m60wkit12piZDYHwxM9rXo-dy1kpkz6D0hg4hvurWkQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <slrnjrdcms.37m.noemail@us.news.astraweb.com>

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There are literally dozens of packages that manage buffers. If you Google
around, you're sure to find one that fits your needs. It sounds like you
just want to create a custom next-buffer that skips those buffers you don't
want.

Aaron Meurer

On Friday, May 18, 2012, BDB wrote:

> Mark Skilbeck wrote:
> > How exactly are you cycling through the buffers? If you know the names of
> > the buffers, simply using C-x b with a partial-string can complete the
> buffer
> > name for you. If you don't know the names of the buffers you're
> interested in,
> > you're still going ot require casting an eye on the buffer list. Really,
> > what's 3 extra buffer names?
>
> I like to use next-buffer bound to a key to cycle through the open buffers.
> I googled around and found buffer-stack.el, which kind of minimizes the
> problem by keeping the less recently used buffers at the bottom of the
> stack,
> however it's still annoying to have the clutter around.  It's actually
> pretty
> surprising nobody has made a fix for this.
>
> > P.S. If you're not, you should probably be using IDO[1].
>
> Thanks, but I'm not looking to change my behavior to fit emacs, but the
> other way around :)
>


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  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-18 22:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.1361.1337366454.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-05-18 20:36 ` Hide extraneous buffers? BDB
2012-05-18 22:54   ` Aaron Meurer [this message]
2012-05-18 18:40 Mark Skilbeck
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2012-05-18 18:03 BDB
2012-05-18 18:38 ` Mark Skilbeck
2012-05-18 20:39 ` Drew Adams
2012-05-19  0:18 ` Xah Lee

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