From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: *Buffer-List*: how to rearrange items in it? Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 06:47:47 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Public Access Networks Corp. Message-ID: References: <8otp8tFv7qU1@mid.individual.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1295400178 22506 80.91.229.12 (19 Jan 2011 01:22:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 01:22:58 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 19 02:22:54 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1PfMlB-0003Iy-Rn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Jan 2011 02:22:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47949 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PfMlA-0000m9-RX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Jan 2011 20:22:52 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!panix!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 51 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: panix1.panix.com Original-X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1295333267 10281 166.84.1.1 (18 Jan 2011 06:47:47 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 06:47:47 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:184357 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 20:19:34 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:78565 Archived-At: In article <8otp8tFv7qU1@mid.individual.net>, Raffaele Ricciardi 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