From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How can I kill these buffers automatically (Woman-log Completions) Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 18:41:28 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87wtk5we2o.fsf@magma.ca> <874q78cuz4.fsf@magma.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1130085841 20165 80.91.229.2 (23 Oct 2005 16:44:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 16:44:01 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 23 18:43:53 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ETivV-0003PF-Dt for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Oct 2005 18:42:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ETivU-0004wS-QK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Oct 2005 12:42:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ETivM-0004vQ-07 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Oct 2005 12:42:20 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ETivL-0004uo-EN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Oct 2005 12:42:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ETivL-0004ul-9N for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Oct 2005 12:42:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.20] (helo=nitzan.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1ETivL-0004r3-B9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Oct 2005 12:42:19 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-83-130-210-235.inter.net.il [83.130.210.235]) by nitzan.inter.net.il (MOS 3.6.5-GR) with ESMTP id BTL21434 (AUTH halo1); Sun, 23 Oct 2005 18:41:28 +0200 (IST) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-reply-to: <874q78cuz4.fsf@magma.ca> (message from Angelina Carlton on Sun, 23 Oct 2005 07:51:11 -0400) 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:30497 Archived-At: > From: Angelina Carlton > Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 07:51:11 -0400 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > That's because you set woman-show-log too late: it should be set > > _before_ woman.elc is loaded. Alternatively, use the Customize > > feature to customize the value of the variable, and have Customize > > write the correct code into your .emacs. > > > I tried it placing the line right at the top of my .emacs and it still > wont do anything, also tried via the customize menus also with no effect. Perhaps we are miscommunicating: this variable controls whether the log buffer is _shown_, not whether it is created and filled with log message. If you expected that setting it to nil will prevent WoMan from logging messages into the log buffer, you misunderstood the doc string of woman-show-log. > Because although I use Iswitch buffer, when I have *Compile-log* > *Completions* and some other file I might be visiting that happens to > begin with Comp it becomes for me at least, a little extra step to type > out the buffer name. (or enough of the buffer name to be unique) You can tailor this Iswitch's behavior by customizing the variable iswitchb-buffer-ignore. > Maybe its because I am relatively new to emacs and this is the way it > works, you just get used to having lots of buffers? Yes, I think you should get used to this. Emacs creates a lot of buffers, so this is perfectly normal. > > I also don't see any sense in killing the *Help* buffer, because it > > will be reused (and recreated, if needed) by the next help command. > > It is also handy to go to that buffer if you forgot some detail. > > I dont care really if emacs has to recreate the buffer My point was that, even if you kill *Help*, it will be created again in a short while. So why bother?