From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Making buffer names unique Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:37:16 -0600 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1220672272 6350 80.91.229.12 (6 Sep 2008 03:37:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 03:37:52 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 06 05:38:47 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KbodK-0006ao-AO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 05:38:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35942 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KbocK-0000tU-NM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Sep 2008 23:37:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kboc2-0000sD-Uy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Sep 2008 23:37:26 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kboc0-0000s1-Kk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Sep 2008 23:37:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40265 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kboc0-0000ry-Eu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Sep 2008 23:37:24 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:51143 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kboc0-0006UP-4d for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Sep 2008 23:37:24 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Kbobu-0004ii-EO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 03:37:18 +0000 Original-Received: from c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([67.161.145.183]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 03:37:18 +0000 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 03:37:18 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Macintosh/20080707) In-Reply-To: X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:57300 Archived-At: Corey Foote wrote: > I found the section in the Emacs manual on how to make buffer names > unique (16.7.1), but am having trouble actually getting that to work for > me. I'm sure it must be something I'm doing wrong. I tried putting (setq > uniquify-buffer-name-style "forward") in my .emacs file, but it doesn't > seem to do anything. Would anybody mind explaining to me how to user the > forward naming method for my buffers? Thanks! That variable's value should be a symbol, not a string: (setq uniquify-buffer-name-style 'forward) -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA