start emacs sr-speedbar in buffers mode on loading

Question

I use sr-speedbar in emacs. On loading, it starts in file mode. I then manually change it to buffers mode. Since I almost always use buffers mode, I would prefer to start it in that. However, I cannot find any way after googling and wondering if someone with Lisp expertise has inputs on how to resolve this

Answer 1

The variable speedbar-initial-expansion-list-name controls the initial view of speedbar. The default value is "files". The other two possibilities are "quick buffers" or "buffers" -- either of the following could be placed in the .emacs file after a (require 'speedbar) statement:

(setq speedbar-initial-expansion-list-name "quick buffers")

or

(setq speedbar-initial-expansion-list-name "buffers")