From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Brady Montz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: The minibuffer vs. Dialog Boxes (Re: Making XEmacs be more up-to-date) Date: 20 Apr 2002 09:28:54 -0700 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 1019320228 20765 127.0.0.1 (20 Apr 2002 16:30:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 16:30:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 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 16yxkq-0005Oo-00 for ; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 18:30:28 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16yy4l-0002Pi-00 for ; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 18:51:03 +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 16yxkd-0000hO-00; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 12:30:15 -0400 Original-Received: from c64-255-216-95.sea1.cablespeed.com ([64.255.216.95] helo=sandman.balestra.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16yxjP-0000bb-00 for ; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 12:28:59 -0400 Original-Received: (from bradym@localhost) by sandman.balestra.org (8.10.2/8.10.2) id g3KGStr05862; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 09:28:55 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: sandman.balestra.org: bradym set sender to bradym@balestra.org using -f Original-To: Terje Bless In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 27 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.5 (bamboo) 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:2847 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:2847 Terje Bless writes: > Brady Montz wrote: > > >3. we have a nice set of tools for managing which files/buffers you > >have open and how to switch between them: ibuffer, iswitchb, various > >things like desktop.el, speedbar, buffer-menu, ... > > I've been using XEmacs for programming since the early nineties. I _still_ > have no clue how to switch between buffers from the keyboard! I keep going > to the Buffers menu and selecting the one I want. In my "other editor" -- > BBEdit on Mac OS X; solidly planted in GUI land -- I /can/ switch between > buffers from the keyboard. iswitchb!!! Use it, live it, love it. Comes standard with the latest xemacs I believe. Since it came out, I've seen some packages which do similar things, but I'm happily sticking with iswitchb. As they say - "Emacs has a mode which will write your thesis for you. Unfortunately, it'll take you 6 years to find it." -- Brady Montz bradym@balestra.org