Re: Message buffer names

[John Morris <2e0byo@gmail.com>]

I second all of that regarding buffer switching; I have often wondered
the same thing myself.

I generally cut the relevant text to the scratch buffer, but thatʼs
hardly a solution.

Interested to hear what the reasoning behind the hidden buffer names
is,

John

On Fri, 10 Apr 2015 11:22:30 +0200, Greg Bognar wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> When I read an email in WL, I have at least three buffers open: Folder,
> Summary, and the buffer that contains the message.  But when I do C-x C-b,
> only Folder and Summary are listed.  The message itself is in a hidden 
> buffer whose name is something like _*WL:Message*-281649 (where the _ is
> space).
> 
> I don't see the point of this behavior.  In fact, I often work with multiple
> messages, and I want them to be listed and available for buffer switching.
> Ideally, the message buffer should be called something like Message: <subject>.
> I don't see why this should cause any problems -- in the worst case, you
> would have to close manually the buffer of a message that has been deleted
> in the Summary buffer.
> 
> Is there a good reason for making the message buffer hidden?  Is there a way
> to set the name of the message buffer to something that Emacs doesn't hide?
> Even better, can the buffer name be constructed from, e.g., the subject?
> 
> Cheers,
> Greg
>