Re: closing man and help buffers

[Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net>]

Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:

> Luca Ferrari <fluca1978@infinito.it> writes:
>
>> On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Michael Heerdegen
>> <michael_heerdegen@web.de> 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).

I've assigned Electric Buffer list to F9 and I use that binding for
all my buffer selection.

Cleaning up buffers is simple, simply type 'd' for the buffers you want
to drop on the way to the buffer you want to select.

-- 
Dan Espen