From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Florian Diesch Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: too many buffers Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 17:15:55 +0100 Organization: albasani.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 1263750219 28642 80.91.229.12 (17 Jan 2010 17:43:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 17:43:39 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 17 18:43:32 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 1NWZ7q-0001qh-Au for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:41:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43411 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NWZ7r-0006Pp-A7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 12:41:23 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!goblin1!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.albasani.net!mid.florian-diesch.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Trace: news.albasani.net XbcFxNQ7kayvPF6Pe7ZzFaG/gPIFUd2vLbBPp7EZRqKpdkAhtr7QP50ACfbK51uwSgVPCyWxCp31Kyy60jMU+L8P5h23hf2s8L4KjYLMJg5AjO4FnmtLiJP+RM9vdlIz Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@albasani.net Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 16:16:51 +0000 (UTC) X-User-ID: jyLVckeXH574zicx26UKoV8yff081uIaGwj9jBIT8eE= Cancel-Lock: sha1:fjoR/yV/efyKlPCwJWKSD0vbXB0= User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.91 (gnu/linux) X-NNTP-Posting-Host: WixPn5hLe44fUiUZNoOxeM7GEIJuqfviNXO3Kul4T/A= Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:176205 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 12:41:03 -0500 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:71277 Archived-At: andrea writes: > When I use emacs for long times I end up having a lot of buffers. > It's not a big problem but it can be annoying, and there are some > buffers that should just not stay there: > - magit buffers > - dired buffers (I didn't find a variable useful to limit the opening of > new buffers) > - completions/help/annotate. > > I normally use those things once and if I need them again I'll execute > again the function. > > Can I limit the creation of new buffers or maybe I should write some > functions that cleans the situation automatically (using ibuffer maybe)? I'm using to automatically have those buffers closed. Florian --