From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Will Parsons Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Making buffer names unique Date: 6 Sep 2008 01:34:15 GMT Message-ID: References: Reply-To: ellenophilos@yahoo.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1220675379 13179 80.91.229.12 (6 Sep 2008 04:29:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 04:29:39 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 06 06:30:33 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 1KbpRL-0006aY-V7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 06:30:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41597 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KbpQM-0008Pj-Ap for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:29:26 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Trace: individual.net 4XYNlDCBsSey9ig6Q5mttwAFbqThwtfs6/Ig/tVjs+5Ael42T0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:2eSIHpTj4MtSaFMOAN9aSSoRCK4= User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1 (FreeBSD) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:161957 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:26:47 -0400 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:57304 Archived-At: Corey Foote wrote: > I found the section in the Emacs manual on how to make > buffer names unique (16.7.1)=2C 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 un= > iquify-buffer-name-style "forward") in my .emacs file=2C but it doesn't see= > m to do anything. Would anybody mind > explaining to me how to user the forward naming method for my buffers? Than= > ks! I have in my .emacs file: (require 'uniquify) (setq uniquify-buffer-name-style 'post-forward) -- Will