From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Kevin Buchs <kevin.buchs@gmail.com>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: customized buffer list
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 14:52:02 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <843a649c-07eb-4333-b36e-156af0d6a8a0@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKT9s6AEbT0t7mU1U=XJgBZofL+Y=pWG-5KZdatQ6fMzfeahKQ@mail.gmail.com>
> Today I got inspired to make Emacs work better for me. The buffer list
> (C-x C-b) has abbreviated buffer names. Also the size and mode columns
> I rarely use.
> I began to look for an option to customize the buffer list or an
> alternative to it. I started to look at the code for buffer-list() and I
> got scared. It is twisted and it uses function names beginning with an
> uppercase letter! Couldn't find any customization. I found the well-hidden
> ibuffer, but that didn't give me what I was seeking. I found Buffer Menu
> Plus (https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/BufferMenuPlus) and that allows
> hiding the mode. Anyone have recommendations for any other solutions?
Buffer-Menu+ lets you customize the buffer-menu display in
many ways, including wrt the size and mode fields.
Unfortunately, it requires the Emacs 23 (or earlier) version
of vanilla buff-menu.el - it does not work with 24.2 or
later. Starting with Emacs 24.2, Emacs based buff-menu.el
on `tabulated-list-mode', which is more restricted.
I have not bothered to update buff-menu+.el to fit with
the newer versions of buff-menu.el. I kinda doubt that
I will ever bother to do that. (Maybe I should just
incorporate the vanilla Emacs 23 buff-menu.el code into
buff-menu+.el.)
You can probably find the Emacs 23 version of buff-menu.el.
If not, ibuffer might give you some of what you want.
(Ibuffer has many other features that buff-menu+.el does
not have. And buff-menu+.el has features that ibuffer
does not have.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-28 21:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-28 21:36 customized buffer list Kevin Buchs
2017-03-28 21:52 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2017-03-29 1:52 ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-03-30 18:26 ` Emanuel Berg
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