From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ryan Bowman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Fwd: A few Emacs newbie questions, need oldbie answers :) (fwd) Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 09:17:04 -0700 (PDT) Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20040427161704.73183.qmail@web41405.mail.yahoo.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1083085138 28473 80.91.224.253 (27 Apr 2004 16:58:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 16:58:58 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 27 18:58:48 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BIVuy-0006fN-00 for ; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 18:58:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BIVgt-000194-Ts for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 12:44:15 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BIVfQ-0000mZ-Ng for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 12:42:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BIVdw-0000KS-S0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 12:41:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [66.218.93.71] (helo=web41405.mail.yahoo.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BIVGj-00030f-Ba for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 12:17:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [128.187.0.165] by web41405.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 09:17:04 PDT Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:18050 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:18050 > > >>> What is the best way (or the easiest way) > to switch buffers? > > >>I tend to do 'C-x b' to switch to the previous > buffer or 'C-x C-b' for > >>a list of buffers. > > Well, I researched on this one a bit. I read the > info docs and > saw emacs-goodies-el has a cycle-buffer-forward and > cycle-buffer-backward commands and we can bind > these to M-N and > M-P in .emacs, according to the info, but when I do > this and > start emacs, I get errors pointing me to these > lines. When I > remove the macros, emacs starts okay. Can anything > be done so > that these bindings work? I redefined C-x C-b to bs-show which is a much better buffer listing with lots of commands for dealing with and switching to buffers. The file bs.el (should be included with emacs) also includes commands for cycling the buffer forward and backward, which I bound to M-n and M-p, they also show a list (in the minibuffer) of the buffers in the order they will be cycled through. They ar bs-cycle-next and bs-cycle-previous. ===== --- Ryan The door at the end of the tunnel is far too small... - Closing In 2.0 - Don't Be Afraid - Information Society - insoc.org --- __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover