Re: Anything like this exist already? (buffer name intelligence)

[Joost Kremers <joostkremers@yahoo.com>]

Aaron Maxwell wrote:
> I've taken to renaming such buffers with a prefix in their file path, just 
> enough to make them unique: i.e., for "/home/amax/src/snazzylib/__init__.py", 
> I might rename its buffer from "__init__.py" to "snazzylib/__init__.py".  And 
> I wrote a utility to automate this, which I've pasted below.  I bind it to 
> C-c e, and thus can quickly give a new buffer a clueful name without 
> interrupting myself to think about it.

mmm. i have the following in my .emacs:

(toggle-uniquify-buffer-names)

which seems to do the same thing, only automatically. (it even renames the
buffer back to __init__.py when only one such file is left open.)

> Am I reinventing the wheel here?

looks like it. ;-)


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