From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mark Skilbeck Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Hide extraneous buffers? Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 19:40:46 +0100 Message-ID: <20120518184046.GA26533@mark-laptop> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1337366466 15599 80.91.229.3 (18 May 2012 18:41:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 18:41:06 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 18 20:41:06 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SVS6k-0002IF-TB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 May 2012 20:40:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53562 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SVS6k-0000DF-AV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 May 2012 14:40:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:55063) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SVS6c-0000D2-P3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 18 May 2012 14:40:52 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SVS6b-0007Vk-1t for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 18 May 2012 14:40:50 -0400 Original-Received: from li357-97.members.linode.com ([178.79.188.97]:49106 helo=mail.iammark.us) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SVS6a-0007Uf-Sc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 18 May 2012 14:40:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.iammark.us (host86-133-64-241.range86-133.btcentralplus.com [86.133.64.241]) by mail.iammark.us (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 40C79AB8E for ; Fri, 18 May 2012 19:40:47 +0100 (BST) Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 178.79.188.97 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:84878 Archived-At: Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 19:38:27 +0100 From: Mark Skilbeck To: BDB Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Subject: Re: Hide extraneous buffers? User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 06:03:20PM +0000, BDB wrote: > Is there any way to hide the *scratch*, Messages, Completions etc buffers? > I kill them but they always come back, and it's a pain to have to cycle > through 6 buffers when I only really have 3 meaningful ones open. How exactly are you cycling through the buffers? If you know the names of the buffers, simply using C-x b with a partial-string can complete the buffer name for you. If you don't know the names of the buffers you're interested in, you're still going ot require casting an eye on the buffer list. Really, what's 3 extra buffer names? I admit, when I first started using emacs, those ephemeral buffers got in my way. Now I don't notice them. - mgsk. P.S. If you're not, you should probably be using IDO[1]. [1] http://emacswiki.org/emacs/InteractivelyDoThings