I wish list-buffers used my current window when it listed my buffers

[Jay Cotton]

I've always wished list-buffers used my current window when it listed my 
buffers. I don't know why, but this rubbed me the wrong way immediately when I 
learned the command, and I've never been able to shake it.

Years ago I figured out a way to get what I wanted[1], but now I jump from 
machine to machine and I'm always firing up emacs on distant machines and 
immediately missing my little hack when I C-x C-b. Continuing with C-x 0 seems 
like a lot of typing just to to begin navigating to the buffer I'm looking for.

Is there a simple way to get what I want when I'm running emacs away from my 
customizations? [2][3]

Thanks,
Jay

[1] I was inexperienced with emacs/elisp and I naively re-defun'd 'list-buffers 
to switch to the buffer instead of creating a new window and displaying it 
there.

[2] I vaguely recall that there is a special variable for a list of commands 
that shouldn't use new windows, but I also vaguely recall that I used it and it 
stopped working for 'list-buffers.

[3] I realize that, taken out of context, this is a laughably complicated 
question and probably the holy grail of countless migrant emacs users the world 
over. But here I'm just talking about how to get my buffers to list in the same 
window, when, for instance, I'm using somebody else's emacs process.