Re: switching frame focus

["John Conrad" <john.emerson.conrad@gmail.com>]

On 5/4/06, Roger Mason <rmason@esd.mun.ca> wrote:
> "Ryan Krauss" <ryanlists@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > This seems like a silly question, but I have goolged around and not
> > come up with an answer.  If I split my window using C-x 2, how do I
> > switch the focus between the two split frames (or whatever emacs calls
> > them).  I have an aversion to touching the mouse, but basically I want
> > to click in the other window and work over there and then click
> > back. I also want to use this when I do C-x C-b to list the buffers.
> > I want
> > to switch into the buffer list to choose the one I want to open.
>
> C-x o  cycles between frames.
>
> HTH,
>
> Roger

Specifically, the command/function 'other-window' cycles through
windows, and, as Roger pointed out, it is bound by default to the
C-x o.

It always annoyed me that C-x C-b (and lots of other commands) open
new windows, possibly messing up my window configuration, and almost
always requiring me to take the extra step of hitting C-x o (or F7,
which I've bound to 'other-window). About a year ago I took the step
of adding the following sexp to my .emacs file, which causes all these
buffer-creating commands to open in the current window:

(setq same-window-regexps (list ".*"))

I would be curious to hear from anybody who might share my frustration
and has found an alternative solution.

Regards,
John Emerson Conrad