From: Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Possible to hook into Emacs's buffer name generation?
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 09:37:35 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1oc6at95s.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: bp8r5b66vac.fsf@usca1uw-JZWWPM1.sanmateo.corp.akamai.com
On 2011-02-18 08:28 +0800, Sean McAfee wrote:
> Lately I've been doing a lot of editing inside a large source
> repository. Sometimes I'll have different versions of the same source
> file open at the same time, and it's a bit of a hassle to have to keep
> in mind whether the older or the newer version is the one with a "<2>"
> after its name in the mode line.
>
> I thought it might be cool to have Emacs automatically name buffers that
> are visiting files in my repository with a trailing "<component-x.y.z>"
> when I open them, where component-x.y.z is simply the closest directory
> name above the file that matches that pattern. I could do this by
> adding a hook to find-file-hooks and renaming the buffer according to my
> scheme, but it seems cleaner to tell Emacs how to generate the desired
> buffer name in the first place. I've traced the code from find-file all
> the way down to generate-new-buffer-name, but I can't find anywhere I
> can interpose my buffer-naming logic.
>
> Did I miss something, or am I out of luck?
Maybe you can build on top of uniquify.el?
Leo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-18 1:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-18 0:28 Possible to hook into Emacs's buffer name generation? Sean McAfee
2011-02-18 1:37 ` Leo [this message]
2011-02-18 9:13 ` Tassilo Horn
2011-02-18 1:37 ` Óscar Fuentes
[not found] ` <mailman.5.1297993074.2625.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-02-20 23:37 ` Sean McAfee
2011-02-21 1:32 ` Stefan Monnier
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