Re: I wish list-buffers used my current window when it listed my buffers

[Jay Cotton <jay.cotton@gmail.com>]

Is it just you and me, or do lots of others also think this behavior makes better sense? (From a windowing perspective, that is. I can't speak to the technical pros and cons of electric-buffer-list vs. the traditional list-buffers, I just like that the former opens in the same window.)

I list buffers *constantly* when I'm working in emacs. I've always got 3 or 4 windows open, and I'm somewhat OCD about keeping things where I want them, and the problem is that with such an arrangement, I can't always predict where list-buffers is going to pop up the buffer list. I haven't studied the problem carefully, and I assume it has something to do with the order in which I created the windows. But I don't always create the windows in the same order. Usually my arrangement just sort of evolves as I'm working, and in any event I can't always predict which window will be used to pop up the buffer.

This difficult-to-predict window behavior has always seemed un-emacs-y to me. And I've always wondered if I'm somehow "doing it wrong" since it causes me such grief when my .emacs file isn't available.

Jay

On Aug 15, 2013, at 8:45 AM, Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> wrote:

> Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> writes:
> 
>> Jay Cotton wrote:
>>> I've always wished list-buffers used my current window when it
>>> listed my buffers. I don't know why, but this rubbed me the wrong
>>> way immediately when I learned the command, and I've never been able
>>> to shake it.
>> 
>> Instead of getting list-buffers into the current directory please try
>> using electric-buffer-list instead.  In my opinion it works much nicer
>> and really should be the default instead of list-buffers.
>> 
>>  (global-set-key "\C-x\C-b" 'electric-buffer-list) ; originally list-buffers
> 
> Someone else agrees with you:
> 
> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ElectricBufferList
> 
> I wonder if a bug report would have any effect.
> 
> -- 
> Dan Espen