emacs persistant buffer list

Question

In vim, I can have a nice small window that lists all my open buffers by using minibufexplorer. I can navigate to it and switch buffers.

Is there a persistant buffer list plugin for emacs?

I'm looking for something similar to this: http://i.imgur.com/Tzid4.png

At the bottom of the screenshot, you can see a list of the different buffers he has open.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

1. Use buffer-menu . I bind it to Cx Cb (instead of list-buffers ). It is the same thing as list-buffers , but it also lets you act on buffers.

2. Have a look at Buffer Menu+ , which enhances the vanilla buffer menu ( list-buffers , buffer-menu ).

3. Make buffer *Buffer List* (used by Cx Cb ) use its own frame, which you can leave displayed (or iconified) for easy access. To do that, make it a special-display buffer -- see options special-display-regexps and special-display-buffer-names .

Answer 2

You can get a list of open buffers with list-buffers ( Cx Cb ). To keep a bar showing open buffers visible at all times, take a look at tabbar-mode . tabbar-mode is packaged in the marmalade repository, so you can install it through the package manager if you've installed package.el or if you're using emacs 24 or later.