From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: buffer order Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 09:47:36 +0900 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1193273296 18879 80.91.229.12 (25 Oct 2007 00:48:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:48:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juri Linkov , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 25 02:48:16 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IkqtT-0000qS-MG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 02:48:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IkqtL-0008T6-Bm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 20:48:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IkqtG-0008Sw-S4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 20:48:02 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IkqtD-0008SY-AS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 20:48:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IkqtD-0008SV-7J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 20:47:59 -0400 Original-Received: from tyo202.gate.nec.co.jp ([202.32.8.206]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ikqt5-00075d-C8; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 20:47:51 -0400 Original-Received: from relay21.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.50]) by tyo202.gate.nec.co.jp (8.13.8/8.13.4) with ESMTP id l9P0lZvW007333; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 09:47:35 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from relay21.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.24] [10.29.19.24]) by relay21.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 09:47:35 +0900 Original-Received: from dhapc248.dev.necel.com ([10.114.112.215] [10.114.112.215]) by relay21.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 09:47:35 +0900 Original-Received: by dhapc248.dev.necel.com (Postfix, from userid 31295) id 348D1B67; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 09:47:37 +0900 (JST) System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: (Drew Adams's message of "Wed\, 24 Oct 2007 09\:31\:54 -0700") Original-Lines: 21 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 8 (1) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:81671 Archived-At: "Drew Adams" writes: > It would also be good to add some of the regexp and marking/unmarking > features that Dired has to Buffer List, the equivalent of > `dired-toggle-marks' and `dired-mark-files-regexp', for instance. > > It would also be good to have commands to mark all buffers of a certain type > (e.g. by mode, time, size, file buffers). You could then, for instance, mark > all Emacs-Lisp buffers, then unmark a few of them that you don't want to > search, and so on. `ibuffer' already has that sort of thing (very well done UI too). I dunno about buffer re-ordering; ibuffer has "b" (bury-buffer), which is sometimes useful, but I can't really imagine using the elaborate system you describe (I very rarely care about the exact ordering of buffers). -Miles -- Fast, small, soon; pick any 2.