A common annoyance with Emacs when working on a code base that has duplicate file names is that the mode line tends to display the buffer names as “one.py:<1>”, “one.py:<2>” etc etc. That doesn’t help much with telling them apart and I find it confusing.

I was introduced to the Uniquify library a while ago. This library allows you some control over how you want to display the buffer names of buffers that contain files with duplicate names. I use the following configuration in my .emacs: