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

[Michael Heerdegen]

Jay Cotton <jay.cotton@gmail.com> writes:

> Is it just you and me, or do lots of others also think this behavior
> makes better sense? (From a windowing perspective, that is. I can't
> speak to the technical pros and cons of electric-buffer-list vs. the
> traditional list-buffers, I just like that the former opens in the
> same window.)
>
> I list buffers *constantly* when I'm working in emacs. I've always got
> 3 or 4 windows open, and I'm somewhat OCD about keeping things where I
> want them, and the problem is that with such an arrangement, I can't
> always predict where list-buffers is going to pop up the buffer
> list. I haven't studied the problem carefully, and I assume it has
> something to do with the order in which I created the windows. But I
> don't always create the windows in the same order. Usually my
> arrangement just sort of evolves as I'm working, and in any event I
> can't always predict which window will be used to pop up the buffer.
>
> This difficult-to-predict window behavior has always seemed un-emacs-y
> to me. And I've always wondered if I'm somehow "doing it wrong" since
> it causes me such grief when my .emacs file isn't available.

Configuring `display-buffer-alist is a good solution in the most cases.
For the other cases, you at least have winner.el to undo buffer popping
you didn't want (`winner-undo').

BTW, AFAIK Stefan plans to implement prefix keys that control the buffer
displaying behavior of the following command.  There would be a default
behavior, and you can use those prefixes to deviate from the default.

Michael.