Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com> writes: > I hadn't been aware of buffer-menu. Playing with it > now shows that it works very similarly to > electric-buffer-list. I think anyone using either > buffer-menu or electric-buffer-list are in the same > group and want the same thing and could use either of > those almost interchangeably. I assume > electric-buffer-list came first and buffer-menu > duplicated the behavior since I have been using > electric-buffer-list for a very many years and had > not ever heard of buffer-menu before? That is my > assumption until I learn otherwise.
Well, I don't know (what was first). Yeah, it is interesting, I didn't know of either electric or buffer-list. I knew of the command `C-x C-b' but I thought that was a buffer-menu command, as another of the do-something and then do-something-other-window (or perhaps do-something-split-window). So it was interesting to learn there were so many ways to do (superficially at least) the same thing. I didn't manage to follow the description of keys, but that much I understood that you don't like changes to the window configuration. Here I agree 100%... I have managed to rid my Emacs of some of those cases which are, as you say, disruptive, but one in particular remains... To create a new message from anywhere in Emacs, I have `C-o m' bound to a function that looks for the Gnus group buffer - the assumption is that it exists if and only if Gnus runs... (Otherwise it starts Gnus and tries again.) If Gnus runs, it uses (gnus-post-news 'post "") to open an empty buffer, with the headers and so on as configured, in message-mode. However, it doesn't respect what is currently displayed - it is always fullscreened. Anyone knows how to not make that happen? The entire defun: (defun new-message () (interactive) (if (get-buffer "*Group*") (gnus-post-news 'post "") (progn (gnus) (new-message) ))) -- underground experts united _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list info-gnus-english@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english