emacs list-buffers behavior

Question

In GNU emacs, every time I hit Ctrl-x Ctrl-b to see all of my buffers, the window is split to show the buffer list, or if I have my window already split in 2 (for ins

Answer 1

I highly recommend bs.el from http://www.geekware.de/software/emacs/ Install it and:

(require 'bs)
(add-hook 'bs-mode-hook 'turn-on-font-lock)
(global-set-key "\C-x\C-b" 'bs-show)

It manages buffers and window configuration in the right way, so everything requires minimum number of keystrokes.