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: https://i.stack.imgur.com/RCtHT.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 C-x C-b (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 C-x C-b) 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.