The package is % emerge -pv app-emacs/ibuffer [ebuild R ] app-emacs/ibuffer-1.9 Setting the variable (setq ibuffer-expert t) breaks the deletion of buffers in ibuffer's display: Neither marking a buffer with "d" then typing "x" [x runs the command ibuffer-do-kill-on-deletion-marks] nor marking a buffer with "m" then typing "D" [D runs the command ibuffer-do-delete] causes a deletion. However, with (setq ibuffer-expert nil) then both provoke "Really kill <buffer>?" and typing "yes" indeed kills the buffer. I presume this is a bug (unless some obscure configuration variable is the cause) with "ibuffer", and presume that it needs to be tossed upstream.
I propose a possible resolution of both this bug and of http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92190 . ================ As of 11May2005, Gentoo's version of "ibuffer.el" is app-emacs/ibuffer-1.9 A websearch finds a more recent version, version 2.6.1, at http://www.shootybangbang.com/software/ibuffer.el and it appears to be a website http://www.shootybangbang.com/ of the original author, John Paul Wallington. When I load this version, deletion works correctly. ================ As for bug-report 92190, for the newer version of ibuffer, (customize-group "ibuffer") refers to URL http://web.verbum.org/~walters which does appear to be correct. ================ My suggestion is to replace the old ibuffer with app-emacs/ibuffer-2.6.1 and make this the Gentoo ebuild for ibuffer.
Thanks for the info. I updated ibuffer.el to 2.6.1. Please test if the problem is solved with the ebuild.
A normal emerge produces app-emacs/ibuffer-2.6.1 (masked by: ~x86 keyword) But when I try ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -av =app-emacs/ibuffer-2.6.1 a get a list of about 40 pkgs that Portage wants to install, together with this message: Total size of downloads: 214,454 kB !!! Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be installed !!! on the same system. Even without the error, I don't want to install that much.
