From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Espen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Feeling lost without tabs Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 22:25:37 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <834myc64eh.fsf@gnu.org> <877g37ubbi.fsf@debian.uxu> <87fvhvr1u3.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1405909825 15330 80.91.229.3 (21 Jul 2014 02:30:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 02:30:25 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 21 04:30:18 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1X93Mn-0002OG-T6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2014 04:30:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60341 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X93Mn-0004sC-4r for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Jul 2014 22:30:17 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed4.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!news.stack.nl!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 28 Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="aabc59b8ce9cdce0c2995912677c9e55"; logging-data="19090"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+VrWREJNs7KXH4qq0UK8ryAWLGWbZL/mU=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ydwB/N+0PCtJ1If8uFzol4+rMSU= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:206576 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:98848 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg writes: > Dan Espen writes: > >>> Could you just short say what the differences are >>> and how you experience them to be better? I never >>> used `electric-buffer-list' but it looks kind of the >>> same at first glance. >> >> Yes, it does, but in each way it differs, it's >> better. It's been so long since I switched that I >> can't enumerate the differences. > > OK, I like `buffer-menu' because it replaces the whole > window where the command is given. electric will take as much room as it needs, but looks like it will leave 3 lines visible. It's been so long, but it's one of the things I liked. > (But I take it that > can be configured for `list-buffers' and the > `electric-buffer-list' as well.) But I've spent some > time configuring the `buffer-menu', On the wiki I wrote up how to font-lock the electric buffer list.