Mike Zamansky has added another video to his Using Emacs Series. This time it’s about bufler, a replacement for ibuffer. Mostly when I call up ibuffer, I just want to see a list of my buffers and I don’t care that much about grouping. Somewhere along the line, I installed ibuffer-vc that groups the buffers by their vc root but I don’t really care about the grouping. I should probably uninstall ibuffer-vc but I don’t mind the grouping and it’s there so inertia has ruled.
Zamansky is different. He really likes having his buffers grouped by project. After his last video, someone suggested he try bufler. He did that and liked the results except that it split the current window and opened the results in the new window when it was called. He didn’t like that and couldn’t find a way to change the behavior so he wrote a bit of Elisp to give him his preferred behavior.
The video is just over 10 minutes so it will be easy to find time for it. If, like me, you just want a list of buffers, bufler may not interest you. If you’d like to have a more organized listing, bufler may be for you. Either way, take a look a Zamansky’s video and see what you think.