This tweet from Mickey
`M-x ibuffer’ is a strictly superior buffer list compared to the default one in #emacs bound to `C-x C-b’.
It comes with dozens of commands and utility features. Like filtering and grouping, highlighting, and much, much more.
You should switch to it right now.
— Mickey Petersen (@mickeynp) February 15, 2022
reminded me of something I haven’t thought of since I started using Emacs more than 15 years ago. Very early on I learned from somewhere that I should use ibuffer instead of list-buffers. I couldn’t even remember how I made the substitution and had to look. Back then I didn’t know very much Elisp so instead of remapping Ctrl+x Ctrl+b like I’d do today, I simply aliased ibuffer to list-buffers.
I can only concur with what Mickey says: just stop using list-buffers and change to ibuffer; you won’t be sorry. The only question in my mind is why ibuffer hasn’t replaced list-buffers as the default. It’s hard to imagine that anyone prefers list-buffers but those who do would still have access to it but the default would be the much more sensible ibuffer.