From 224baa93f966f683f4b7205105f99e298600dfa8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Myhrberg <contact@jimeh.me>
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2012 20:39:03 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] use uniquify to deal with files of the same name in a better
 way

---
 appearance.el | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/appearance.el b/appearance.el
index e61b6b5..4f65061 100644
--- a/appearance.el
+++ b/appearance.el
@@ -31,6 +31,12 @@
 (if window-system ()
   (setq linum+-smart-format "%%%dd " linum+-dynamic-format "%%%dd "))
 
+;; meaningful names for buffers with the same name
+(require 'uniquify)
+(setq uniquify-buffer-name-style 'forward)
+(setq uniquify-separator "/")
+(setq uniquify-after-kill-buffer-p t)    ; rename after killing uniquified
+(setq uniquify-ignore-buffers-re "^\\*") ; don't muck with special buffers
 
 ;; Display whitespace characters globally
 (global-whitespace-mode t)