Fixed static window set-up while opening another buffer

Fixed static window set-up while opening another buffer

[Edward Wijaya]

Hi,

Sometime when we are in a certain window, we want to open a buffer-list 
(C-x C-b)
or any other buffer.

However this buffer-list tend to be open in another windows instead
of the current windows (where the active-cursor rest).

Is there away to fix the opening of new buffer in the active window?

Thanks for your time.

Regards
Edward Wijaya
SINGAPORE


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Re: Fixed static window set-up while opening another buffer

[lawrence mitchell]

Edward Wijaya wrote:

> Sometime when we are in a certain window, we want to open a
> buffer-list (C-x C-b) or any other buffer.

> However this buffer-list tend to be open in another windows
> instead of the current windows (where the active-cursor rest).

> Is there away to fix the opening of new buffer in the active
> window?

Does modifying the variable `same-window-regexps' help?

>From the docstring:

| List of regexps saying which buffers should appear in the
| selected window.  If a buffer name matches one of these
| regexps, then displaying it using `display-buffer' or
| `pop-to-buffer' switches to it in the selected window, rather
| than making it appear in some other window.

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lawrence mitchell <wence@gmx.li>

Re: Fixed static window set-up while opening another buffer

[leo]

"lawrence mitchell" <wence@gmx.li> wrote in message
news:?fnord?87wu82uzrs.fsf@ID-97657.usr.dfncis.de...
> Edward Wijaya wrote:
>
> > Is there away to fix the opening of new buffer in the active
> > window?
>
> Does modifying the variable `same-window-regexps' help?
>

or easier to handle but not as flexible is the var
`same-window-buffer-names'.

leo

Re: Fixed static window set-up while opening another buffer

[Kai Grossjohann]

Edward Wijaya <ewijaya@singnet.com.sg> writes:

> Sometime when we are in a certain window, we want to open a
> buffer-list (C-x C-b)
> or any other buffer.
>
> However this buffer-list tend to be open in another windows instead
> of the current windows (where the active-cursor rest).

I will never understand why C-x C-b is bound to buffer-list by
default.  I prefer buffer-menu myself.  Try it!

(It is like buffer-list except that the list pops up in the same
window.)

Kai

Re: Fixed static window set-up while opening another buffer

[Kevin Rodgers]

Kai Grossjohann wrote:

> I will never understand why C-x C-b is bound to buffer-list by
> default.  I prefer buffer-menu myself.  Try it!

Indeed, but I like electric-buffer-list even more than buffer-menu.


-- 
Kevin Rodgers