From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Espen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: closing man and help buffers Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 16:28:11 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <87ppt96a90.fsf@web.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1376944217 21939 80.91.229.3 (19 Aug 2013 20:30:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 20:30:17 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 19 22:30:18 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VBW5i-0003Mq-JU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 22:30:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44803 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VBW5i-00019O-78 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 16:30:18 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 59 Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="2b4d99857b7659717d3b28a24c766d4c"; logging-data="336"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/SsUvnX/gzKsylEOEFdqY/Z7xPsrKDZcU=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:XwzwBvaVNU3IaTok3vrr5yhdj5k= sha1:BYL6SQHFMvItW5eyWBAmKRu/i3s= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:200735 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:93002 Archived-At: Óscar Fuentes writes: > Dan Espen writes: > >>> ibuffer allows marking buffers by several critria, including major mode, >>> name regexp... It has shortcuts for directly marking help buffers and >>> "old" buffers. Then, you can delete marked buffers with D. >> >> Just tried ibuffer. >> looks like you can mark buffers with "d", "D" is not required. > > `d' marks buffers for deletion, much like `dired'. It is an special > mark, not to be confused with the ordinary mark which just indicates > which buffers will be affected by a subsequent operation. > > `D' is one such operation that deletes marked buffers. > >> Doesn't look quite as good as electric >> and acts a bit weird. >> >> You select with return instead of space. >> I don't know what that line that says Default is but when I selected it, >> it appeared to select itself but with no content. >> It contains a blank line and total at the end and it lets you cursor >> into them. > > [Default...] is a group heading. You can configure ibuffer for dividing > buffers into groups and operate on them at once. Ah, I think I see. Well, I selected it with return then subsequent attempts to use ibuffer gave me this mostly empty buffer list. >> It appears to show itself in the buffer list. > > No it doesn't. What's that Buffer Menu thing? MR Name Size Mode Filename/Process -- ---- ---- ---- ---------------- [ Default ] *% *Summary gnu.em... 323 Summary *% *Article gnu.em... 1471 Article *% *Group* 544 Group *scratch* 191 Lisp Interaction * *Messages* 3220 Fundamental *Async Shell Co... 0 Shell ~/doc/ *sent followup ... 3702 Message ~/News/drafts/drafts/6480 *sent followup ... 1854 Message ~/News/drafts/drafts/6483 *% *Buffer List* 860 Buffer Menu * .newsrc-dribble 715 Fundamental ~/.newsrc-dribble 14 buffers 36832 8 files, no processes I don't see it in the electric thing. -- Dan Espen