Re: Remove all directory listings buffers

["B. T. Raven" <nihil@nihilo.net>]

Andreas Politz wrote:
> aartist <aartist@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> On Nov 25, 7:13 am, p...@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)
>> wrote:
>>> rotlas <kat...@gmail.com> writes:
>>>> I often end up with lots of directory buffers (those buffers with "dired by
>>>> name" mode), after navigating in the filesystem in order to open files. Is
>>>> there an easy way to get rid of all those buffers at once, and leaving the
>>>> other?
>>> You could write a little emacs command to do that, but it should also
>>> be easy enough to use:
>>>
>>> C-x C-b   (or M-x list-buffers RET)
>>>
>>> In the buffer list, you can mark buffers for killing with d (and move
>>> down and up with n and p).  When you're done, type x to execute the
>>> orders.
>>>
>>> --
>>> __Pascal Bourguignon__
>> The whole point was to mark  all the directory buffers at once.
>> rather than one by one.
> 
> M-x ibuffer RET * / D
> 
> -ap
> 
> 
> 

Thanks. This looks safer to me than electric-buffer-list. Is it?


Ed