From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 23:22:45 GMT
Subject: Re: emacs buffer names
Message-ID: <8538hvwc3e.fsf_-_@stephe-leake.org>
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8BVXk248VDBi-pAMDY4QpDSbFuAf5qxRxCCq71yGNzpqA@mail.gmail.com>

Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

> The --daemon part is probably not worth mentioning because I always
> have one emacs window open. The problem is switch-buffer based on file
> name can be confusing ("git.c" and "git.c<2>", which belongs to which
> checkout?). I ended up modifying files in the wrong checkout all the
> time.

(setq uniquify-buffer-name-style (quote post-forward-angle-brackets) nil (uniquify))

This puts enough of the directory name in the buffer name to make the
buffer names unique; very helpful!

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