From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: The minibuffer vs. Dialog Boxes (Re: Making XEmacs be more up-to-date) Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 12:15:06 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1019643547 28491 127.0.0.1 (24 Apr 2002 10:19:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 10:19:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Hrvoje Niksic , Eli Zaretskii , jas@extundo.com, bradym@balestra.org, xemacs-design@xemacs.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 170Jrf-0007PQ-00 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 12:19:07 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 170JtH-0007N7-00 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 12:20:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 170JrV-0007Jl-00; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 06:18:57 -0400 Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de ([129.217.4.42]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 170Jo8-00078G-00 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 06:15:28 -0400 Original-Received: from lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lothlorien [129.217.19.67]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with ESMTP id g3OAFDb12589; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 12:15:13 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.19.80]) by lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de id MAA01369; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 12:15:06 +0200 (MET DST) Original-Received: by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix, from userid 6104) id 62AB63AE7E; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 12:15:06 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Terje Bless In-Reply-To: (Terje Bless's message of "Wed, 24 Apr 2002 01:21:57 +0200") Original-Lines: 23 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.2.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:3169 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:3169 Terje Bless writes: > But the switch to buffer bit is simply that me and Hrvoje are speaking of > slightly different things. Switch to buffer by name is there, but I'd like > to cycle through buffers sequentially; analogous to switching between > applications using Alt-TAB on Windows or Cmd-TAB on Mac OS. I see. Sadly, there is no really standard way to do this. Various approaches have various pros and cons. I wonder if it would make sense to bind bury-buffer to a key. Terje, would you be willing to try M-x bury-buffer RET a couple of times to see if it would be useful to have that bound to a key? The problems with bury-buffer are that it only goes in one direction, and it might display some buffers that you are not interested in. Various packages exist that solve these problems, but none of these seems to have emerged as the standard way to do it. kai -- Silence is foo!