Re: Occur stack

[Daniel Colascione]

On 01/14/2014 09:21 AM, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> Tom <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Of course, but it results in a proliferation of occur buffers.
> > It would be nicer to have a single occur buffer where I could
> > go back to previous results.
>
> Yeah.  Perhaps there should be a semi-general "buffer history"
> functionality for these sorts of buffers?  eww has its own history, and
> that's just a buffer-local variable that has a list of buffer
> contents/points/etc, along with some history traversal commands.
>
> I think that could be generalised to other modes that have similar
> "remove everything in the buffer and display new data" ways of working.
> Some modes might need more "restoring" code, though, so it should be
> customisable by each mode...

I'd also like some way of better managing dired buffers. Every time I 
try to use dired intensively instead of the shell, I end up with dozens 
of dired buffers laying around. I'd prefer everything to happen in a 
single dired buffer unless I explicitly "fork" my dired history. IOW, 
navigation in dired buffers, and eww buffers, and occur buffers, should 
work exactly like web browser pages with an "open in new tab" option.