Re: too many buffers

[Suvayu Ali]

On Wednesday 20 January 2010 01:03 PM, Thierry Volpiatto wrote:
> Sam Steingold<sds@gnu.org>  writes:
>
> > andrea wrote:
> > > Can I limit the creation of new buffers or maybe I should write some
> > > functions that cleans the situation automatically (using ibuffer maybe)?
> >
> > enable midnight.el to clean up unused buffers.
> > e.g.,
> > (custom-set-variables '(midnight-delay 7200 t (midnight)))
> > in your .emacs will remove old unused buffers at 2 am.
>
> Also, avoid opening many dired buffer:
>
> If you use anything<http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs/Anything>
>
> you will find a command named `anything-find-files' (it is new) in
> anything-config.el.
>
> With this command you can navigate to a file you want to open without
> opening any dired buffers (use `C-z' to expand subdir and `C-.' to went back
> one level).
>
> So if you want to navigate to ~/foo/bar/baz/your_file, you will have
> only the buffer your_file open.
>
> I use this command as a replacement of standard C-x C-f.

Or you can just put this in your .emacs and use `a' to navigate and open 
files in a dired buffer. :)

(put 'dired-find-alternate-file 'disabled nil)

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Suvayu

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