Cursor automatically gets repositioned in Buffer Menu Mode

[aviralg]

I typed :ls to get a list of open buffers. In that list (Buffer Menu Mode), I navigate to a particular line. But in a couple of seconds the cursor is repositioned to the beginning of the list.

[syl20bnr]

This is a known bug. I don't think there was a fix for it.
Did you tried the ibuffer layer which you can activate with SPC b B ? Do you still have the issue with this ?
What's you version of emacs?

[aviralg]

OS - Lubuntu 15.04
Emacs - 24.5.1 (Compiled Manually)
WM - XMonad

I was not aware of SPC b B. I tried :ls as I was going through a vim tutorial on handling buffers.
SPC b B seems to work great. Thanks.

[TheBB]

This is caused by global-auto-revert-mode. There's a timer running every five seconds.

We could cancel the timer in Buffer-menu-mode-hook (yes, believe it or not, a capital letter), but I don't know of a reliable way to start it again.

[TheBB]

Actually, this can be solved by customizing the revert-buffer-function of that buffer.

(add-hook 'Buffer-menu-mode-hook 
          (lambda ()
            (setq-local revert-buffer-function
                        (lambda (&rest args)))))

It could aso be solved by setting auto-revert-non-file-buffers to nil but judging by the comments that's t for dired.

Feels hacky though.

[StreakyCobra]

:ls is now showing helm-buffers, so the problem of arriving on buffer-menu by following some tutorial is solved. I'm marking this issue as fixed in develop. If someone really want to use buffer-menu, feel free to open a new issue and link this one in it, it will be discussed for integration there.

[cubranic]

@StreakyCobra: :ls only shows helm-buffers if one is using the helm layer. If at install time the user chooses ivy as the completion framework, :ls will open the list in the buffer menu mode.

[StreakyCobra]

@cubranic Sorry I'm not any longer enough into Spacemacs development to be useful here. This is also an old issue, you'll probably get better in visibility by opening a new one.

[cubranic]

Good point, I'll comment in #7661, since it's still open and has a PR ready.

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On Wed, 2017-03-01 at 00:18 -0800, Fabien Dubosson wrote: @cubranic Sorry I'm not any longer enough into Spacemacs development to be useful here. This is also an old issue, you'll probably get better in visibility by opening a new one. — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or mute the thread.