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From: Sebastian Tennant <sebyte@smolny.plus.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: how to change buffer like in visual studio, ultraedit etc (like Alt-Tab in windows but for buffers)?
Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 11:42:00 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87irb53u07.fsf@moley.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20070507010300.1fd524f7@litshi.luna.local

Quoth Micha Feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il>:
>
>> I have tried swbuff-y but pressing C-tab only once just brings up the
>> buffer-switcher and don't switch to last viewed buffer. Also, when I
>> cycle to a another buffer name in the list I need to press RET to
>> actually switch to it. The preferred way would be to switch to the
>> currently highlighted buffer when I release the Ctrl key. Like Alt-Tab
>> works in windows.

I reckon iswitchb is what you're looking for.

Just add this line to your ~/.emacs:

  (iswitchb-mode t)

and buffer switching is performed in the minibuffer.

Cycle between buffers using 'C-s' and 'C-r'.

Sebastian

  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-07  8:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-06  6:53 how to change buffer like in visual studio, ultraedit etc (like Alt-Tab in windows but for buffers)? mopi
2007-05-06 16:06 ` anders
2007-05-06 19:04 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-05-06 20:01   ` Drew Adams
2007-05-06 22:03 ` Micha Feigin
2007-05-07  8:42   ` Sebastian Tennant [this message]
     [not found] ` <mailman.339.1178478694.32220.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
     [not found]   ` <1178485348.638200.302000@y5g2000hsa.googlegroups.com>
2007-05-07 17:45     ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
     [not found] <mailman.340.1178482201.32220.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-05-06 20:44 ` Hadron

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