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From: dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs)
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: *Buffer-List*: how to rearrange items in it?
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 06:47:47 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ih3d2j$a19$2@reader1.panix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8otp8tFv7qU1@mid.individual.net

In article <8otp8tFv7qU1@mid.individual.net>,
Raffaele Ricciardi  <rfflrccrd@gmail.com> wrote:
>David Combs wrote:
>>  how to move something from the TOP of the *Buffer List* down towards the BOTTOM of it?
>> 
>> Myself, I look at *Buffer List* to remind me what I've recently been interested in or working on.
>> 
>> But, when going through my personal directory (cleaning it up), I'll
>> see a file-name whose contents I don't reacall, so I'll (dired) C-v
>> it, and say to myself, yeah, I don't want to delete it, but I probably
>> won't look at it for quite a while, certainly no time soon.
>> 
>> Unfortuantely, that currently-uninteresting file is now sitting at the VERY TOP of *Buffer List*.
>> 
>> So, how to make a new "(Buffer Menu) mode" command that says "move the
>> currently pointed-at buffer DOWN that list?
>> 
>> Maybe default to (very near?) the bottom of the list.
>> 
>> Maybe if prefix arg:
>>     %20   means jump it to 20% down the list (from where it is now?)
>>     20    means jump it to 20  buffer-names further down the list.
>> 
>>     And maybe if *negative*, that far up, or up from the bottom?
>> 
>> 
>> Any ideas?
>> 
>> David
>> 
>> 
>
>"C-h f bury-buffer RET"
>
>However, why aren't you just killing such buffer after discovering you 
>are not interested in it?


Thanks for the hint!


I'd still like to be able to push them down by some percentage
that I give it (given how I use *Buffer List*).

Why not just remove the buffer from the list?  Because
I want to be reminded that indeed I have used it recently
(or not so recently -- maybe two days ago).

David




  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-18  6:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-09  0:43 *Buffer-List*: how to rearrange items in it? David Combs
2011-01-09 12:52 ` Raffaele Ricciardi
2011-01-18  6:47   ` David Combs [this message]
2011-01-09 14:30 ` Drew Adams
2011-01-09 15:37 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
     [not found] ` <mailman.0.1294587760.11727.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-01-18  6:56   ` David Combs
2011-01-19  8:18     ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
     [not found]     ` <mailman.5.1295425463.2916.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-01-21  1:38       ` David Combs

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