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

You might want to rebind C-x C-b to invoke buffer-menu rather than list-buffers:

(global-set-key "\C-x\C-b" 'buffer-menu)

Answer 2

not exactly a solution, but ido-mode provides a different and powerful way to interact with buffers. C-x b will then show a list of all the open buffers, and the one you select will open in the current window.

Answer 3

Not sure where I got this but:

;;; Faster buffer switching
(global-set-key [(C tab)] 'buffer-menu) 

This makes Ctrl-Tab display all buffers in the current window. You can then navigate to a buffer and hit Enter to visit it.

Answer 4

Another not-what-you-asked-for solution: don't select the desired buffer with the mouse, rather finish typing its name (use tab-completion to reduce keystrokes and increase accuracy), then hit return. The buffer list will disappear, and the new file will be open in the previously active window.

Answer 5

Just customize the variable same-window-regexps. display-buffer will display any buffer whose name matches a regexp there in the currently-selected window.

(You will want to add "[*]Buffer List".)

Answer 6

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.