From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Uday S Reddy Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: annoyances Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 11:33:33 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87aaoo7pmj.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87mxso2nr2.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1281868454 27743 80.91.229.12 (15 Aug 2010 10:34:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 10:34:14 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 15 12:34:12 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OkaXc-0000Ey-G7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 12:34:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52655 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OkaXb-0001Rn-SO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 06:34:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=52127 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OkaXW-0001Ri-3A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 06:34:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OkaXU-0003I9-Li for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 06:34:05 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:49796) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OkaXU-0003Ht-Cp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 06:34:04 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OkaXO-000094-Fj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 12:33:58 +0200 Original-Received: from cpc10-harb6-0-0-cust112.perr.cable.virginmedia.com ([92.232.137.113]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 12:33:58 +0200 Original-Received: from u.s.reddy by cpc10-harb6-0-0-cust112.perr.cable.virginmedia.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 12:33:58 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cpc10-harb6-0-0-cust112.perr.cable.virginmedia.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Thunderbird/3.1.2 In-Reply-To: <87mxso2nr2.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:128735 Archived-At: On 8/15/2010 11:06 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > Well, don't use `o' then. Duh. That's what C-o is for. Ok, I either didn't know about C-o or forgot all about it. I will go rebind it to `o' before I forget again. But, I believe that this is a more widespread problem than dired. > Unfortunately, C-o has the side effect of loading the file into a > buffer. And the buffer then stays around. It would be nice to have > dired record when a buffer only becomes populated by C-o and kill it > when the window gets deleted or reassociated without the buffer ever > becoming the current buffer. > > `o' currently has the advantage that you can move back into dired using > C-x 4 0 (why doesn't C-x 4 k work? That binding is quite more mnemonic) > and get rid of the buffer that way. Yes, good ideas indeed. Cheers, Uday