Re: too many buffers

[Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>]

Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com> writes:

> On Wednesday 20 January 2010 01:03 PM, Thierry Volpiatto wrote:
>> Sam Steingold<sds@gnu.org>  writes:
>>
>>> andrea wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Can I limit the creation of new buffers or maybe I should write some
>>>> functions that cleans the situation automatically (using ibuffer maybe)?
>>>
>>> enable midnight.el to clean up unused buffers.
>>> e.g.,
>>> (custom-set-variables '(midnight-delay 7200 t (midnight)))
>>> in your .emacs will remove old unused buffers at 2 am.
>>
>> Also, avoid opening many dired buffer:
>>
>> If you use anything<http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs/Anything>
>>
>> you will find a command named `anything-find-files' (it is new) in
>> anything-config.el.
>>
>> With this command you can navigate to a file you want to open without
>> opening any dired buffers (use `C-z' to expand subdir and `C-.' to went back
>> one level).
>>
>> So if you want to navigate to ~/foo/bar/baz/your_file, you will have
>> only the buffer your_file open.
>>
>> I use this command as a replacement of standard C-x C-f.
>
> Or you can just put this in your .emacs and use `a' to navigate and
> open files in a dired buffer. :)
>
> (put 'dired-find-alternate-file 'disabled nil)

Note that the first time you hit "a" in a dired buffer emacs will ask
you if you want to always use this command and will add it for you in
your .emacs ;-)

-- 
Thierry Volpiatto