From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: closing man and help buffers Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 18:11:13 +0200 Message-ID: <87y57xmzj2.fsf@web.de> References: <87ppt96a90.fsf@web.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1376928713 8200 80.91.229.3 (19 Aug 2013 16:11:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 16:11:53 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 19 18:11:54 2013 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 1VBS3e-0000Su-0f for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 18:11:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43967 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VBS3d-0007pq-HD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 12:11:53 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59878) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VBS3M-0007oQ-Kq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 12:11:43 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VBS3F-0002Ge-CT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 12:11:36 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:36969) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VBS3F-0002GN-48 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 12:11:29 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VBS3C-0000FL-6S for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 18:11:26 +0200 Original-Received: from ip-109-45-47-31.web.vodafone.de ([109.45.47.31]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 18:11:26 +0200 Original-Received: from michael_heerdegen by ip-109-45-47-31.web.vodafone.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 18:11:26 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip-109-45-47-31.web.vodafone.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Z2FtapMFkhj64Q29upkVqzJYsuI= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:92993 Archived-At: Luca Ferrari writes: > On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Michael Heerdegen > wrote: > > > Why do you think is it important to kill those buffers? > > It is not important, but it bother me when I switch to other buffers > since they are in the cycle. IMHO cleaning up buffers that way, be it automatically or manually, is either annoying (when doing it manually) or dangerous (when doing it automatically - buffers may be killed that you want to keep). Instead, try to live with many buffers. Configure Emacs so that commands that display new buffers do it the way you want. Configure `display-buffer-alist'. Use winner-mode. Configure `winner-boring-buffers' so that winner doesn't restore buffers you don't want back. Second, try to find a better way to switch buffers than relying on the history (there are many approaches helping here: ido, elscreen, using multiple frames, using bookmarks or save positions in registers, also Icicles or Helm have good interfaces for buffer switching). Michael.