From: Jay Cotton <jay.cotton@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: I wish list-buffers used my current window when it listed my buffers
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 19:23:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <00FA1084-C039-4E70-A3D1-BDF18EEB5D17@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <icmwojjf6o.fsf@home.home>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-15 23:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-15 2:02 I wish list-buffers used my current window when it listed my buffers Jay Cotton
2013-08-15 4:56 ` Bob Proulx
[not found] ` <mailman.16.1376542594.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-08-15 12:45 ` Dan Espen
2013-08-15 23:23 ` Jay Cotton [this message]
2013-08-16 13:33 ` Michael Heerdegen
2013-08-16 13:33 ` Michael Heerdegen
2013-08-16 22:12 ` Jay Cotton
2013-08-16 23:24 ` Michael Heerdegen
[not found] ` <mailman.163.1376660121.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-08-16 14:03 ` Dan Espen
2013-08-16 22:33 ` Jay Cotton
2013-08-16 22:51 ` Bob Proulx
2013-08-16 23:38 ` Jay Cotton
2013-08-20 23:07 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.447.1377040083.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-08-21 4:51 ` Rustom Mody
2013-08-21 22:55 ` Bob Proulx
[not found] ` <mailman.532.1377125749.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-08-22 4:44 ` Rustom Mody
2013-08-16 23:08 ` Michael Heerdegen
2013-08-16 23:44 ` Jay Cotton
2013-08-16 23:51 ` Jay Cotton
[not found] ` <mailman.210.1376693505.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-08-16 23:14 ` Dan Espen
2013-08-19 3:41 ` Samuel Wales
[not found] <mailman.11.1376532793.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-08-15 3:42 ` Rustom Mody
2013-08-15 4:54 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-08-15 7:31 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2013-08-15 12:32 ` Michael Heerdegen
2013-08-15 12:59 ` Eric Abrahamsen
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