From: Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: how to keep a permanent buffer list open?
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 04:51:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <hjb7bi$8ah$2@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ef38762f1001211730oa0de65ejf0edfdbb58cf4ecc@mail.gmail.com
Brendan Miller <catphive@catphive.net> writes:
> when I launch emacs I'd like to keep a permanent buffer list open to
> one side, so I can visually keep track of what buffers I have open,
> without opening and closing the buffer list.
>
> Is there some customisation out there like that, or can someone give
> pointers on the elisp to open an emacs window on startup and populate
> it with a buffer list, or ibuffer, or whatever?
>
> Basically, I want this to perform the save function that tabs would
> i.e. letting me visually keep track of what files/buffers I have open
> and switch between them with a mouse click. I figure a buffer list
> would be better for keeping track of a large number of buffers, that
> would overflow on a tabbar.
>
> Thanks,
> Brendan
>
I suspect you will tire of that quite soon because of the excessive
screen real estate it consumes - emacs has a very fast buffer display
facility you might consider trying (the open buffers list is quite large
normally because of temp files etc),
I use this
(defalias 'list-buffers 'ibuffer)
(setq ibuffer-shrink-to-minimum-size t)
(setq ibuffer-always-show-last-buffer nil)
(setq ibuffer-sorting-mode 'recency)
(setq ibuffer-use-header-line t)
and
C-x C-b runs the command list-buffers, which is an alias for `ibuffer'
in `emacs-init.el'.
A hot key to open, and a single key to close.
As a new Emacs user you might also consider the excellent ido-mode. My
settings for it are simply
(require 'ido)
(ido-mode)
best of luck!
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-22 3:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-22 1:30 how to keep a permanent buffer list open? Brendan Miller
2010-01-22 1:49 ` Drew Adams
2010-01-22 3:51 ` Richard Riley [this message]
2010-01-22 20:03 ` Brendan Miller
2010-01-22 21:56 ` Suvayu Ali
2010-01-23 0:48 ` Brendan Miller
2010-01-22 19:07 ` Sven Bretfeld
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