Re: basic question: going back to dired

[Bastien]

Xah <xahlee@gmail.com> writes:

> The kill-this-buffer does not have a shortcut by default.

Please suggest a keybinding for this command.

> The Close command doesn't have a default shortuct. In practice, i
> think it induced a operation habit to have hundreds of past buffers
> left open. The problem with leaving buffers is that it makes buffer
> listing/switching facilities much less useful. 

I'm not under this impression.  I think the listing (C-x C-b) facility
is useful because working on many buffers is permitted.  And switching
(C-x b) is easy thanks to completion.  Ido-mode can also help here.

> This is rather common complaint even among emacs old timers

References!

> Only in recent years of elisp study i had workaround with somewhat
> extensive self-made customization)

Maybe intensive customization leave each one of us with the impression
that his/her customization is the best for everyone and should be the
default.  I personally don't think it's a good idea to rebind C-w, for
example. 

> What made me reply here was that posts that seems to want to emphasize
> the emacs ways as better way, which in my opinion, prevents the
> modernization of emacs.

My post didn't contain such valuative considerations.

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Bastien