From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: how to keep a permanent buffer list open? Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 04:51:15 +0100 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1264132342 10690 80.91.229.12 (22 Jan 2010 03:52:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 03:52:22 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 22 04:52:15 2010 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 1NYAZC-0000jP-KN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Jan 2010 04:52:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56564 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NYAZD-0002wF-C6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:52:15 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NYAYn-0002uv-T0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:51:49 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NYAYj-0002pT-JV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:51:49 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37918 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NYAYj-0002pH-DW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:51:45 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:40965) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NYAYi-0000ga-TG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:51:45 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NYAYc-0000cs-VI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jan 2010 04:51:38 +0100 Original-Received: from 85.183.18.158 ([85.183.18.158]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 22 Jan 2010 04:51:38 +0100 Original-Received: from rileyrgdev by 85.183.18.158 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 22 Jan 2010 04:51:38 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 52 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.183.18.158 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:71367 Archived-At: Brendan Miller writes: > when I launch emacs I'd like to keep a permanent buffer list open to > one side, so I can visually keep track of what buffers I have open, > without opening and closing the buffer list. > > Is there some customisation out there like that, or can someone give > pointers on the elisp to open an emacs window on startup and populate > it with a buffer list, or ibuffer, or whatever? > > Basically, I want this to perform the save function that tabs would > i.e. letting me visually keep track of what files/buffers I have open > and switch between them with a mouse click. I figure a buffer list > would be better for keeping track of a large number of buffers, that > would overflow on a tabbar. > > Thanks, > Brendan > I suspect you will tire of that quite soon because of the excessive screen real estate it consumes - emacs has a very fast buffer display facility you might consider trying (the open buffers list is quite large normally because of temp files etc), I use this (defalias 'list-buffers 'ibuffer) (setq ibuffer-shrink-to-minimum-size t) (setq ibuffer-always-show-last-buffer nil) (setq ibuffer-sorting-mode 'recency) (setq ibuffer-use-header-line t) and C-x C-b runs the command list-buffers, which is an alias for `ibuffer' in `emacs-init.el'. A hot key to open, and a single key to close. As a new Emacs user you might also consider the excellent ido-mode. My settings for it are simply (require 'ido) (ido-mode) best of luck! -- Google Talk : rileyrgdev@googlemail.com http://www.google.com/talk O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org