From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: switch-to-buffer-regexp.el + helper/interface file Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2020 04:03:33 +0100 Message-ID: <87r1nmebui.fsf@zoho.eu> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="6497"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:MhpUI8NZqmq6RwpHXhHOSz2T/GE= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 19 04:04:10 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kqSXR-0001YC-1i for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 19 Dec 2020 04:04:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42952 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kqSXQ-0008T7-3S for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 18 Dec 2020 22:04:08 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:52502) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kqSX2-0008Sk-Kt for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Dec 2020 22:03:44 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:49080) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kqSX0-0002PP-Pt for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Dec 2020 22:03:44 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kqSWx-00013K-Kh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Dec 2020 04:03:39 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:126551 Archived-At: Got this old idea working, finally! Works great :) And it didn't take me very long, either... 2 files. See comments for instructions. ;;; -*- lexical-binding: t -*- ;;; ;;; this file: ;;; http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/emacs-init/switch-to-buffer-regexp.el ;;; https://dataswamp.org/~incal/emacs-init/switch-to-buffer-regexp.el (require 'cl-lib) (defun buffer-names () (mapcar #'buffer-name (buffer-list)) ) (defun switch-to-buffer-regexp (buf-re) (let*((ori-buf (buffer-name (current-buffer))) (hits (cl-remove-if-not (lambda (b) (string-match buf-re b)) (buffer-names)) )) (when hits (let ((new-hits (cl-remove ori-buf hits))) (when new-hits (when (string-match buf-re ori-buf) (bury-buffer ori-buf) ) (switch-to-buffer (car new-hits)) ))))) ;; try it! ;; (require 'gnus) ;; (dotimes (i 4) (gnus-post-news 'post "")) ; create 4 posts (global-set-key "\C-cu" (lambda () (interactive) (switch-to-buffer-regexp "\*unsent posting\*.*"))) (global-set-key "\C-ck" (lambda () (interactive) (switch-to-buffer-regexp ".*\.txt"))) ;; hit again to iterate (provide 'switch-to-buffer-regexp) ;;; -*- lexical-binding: t -*- ;;; ;;; this file: ;;; http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/emacs-init/switch-to-buffer.el ;;; https://dataswamp.org/~incal/emacs-init/switch-to-buffer.el ;;; ;;; bind these and similar to one-button keys, e.g. from the buffer-menu (require 'switch-to-buffer-regexp) (defun switch-to-compilation-buffer () (interactive) (switch-to-buffer-regexp "\*compilation\*") ) (defun switch-to-help-buffer () (interactive) (switch-to-buffer-regexp "\*Help\*") ) (defun switch-to-info-buffer () (interactive) (switch-to-buffer-regexp "\*info\*") ) (defun switch-to-manpage-buffer () (interactive) (switch-to-buffer-regexp "\*Man .*\*") ) (defun switch-to-summary-buffer () (interactive) (switch-to-buffer-regexp "\*Summary.*\*") ) (defun switch-to-article-buffer () (interactive) (switch-to-buffer-regexp "\*Article\*") ) (defun switch-to-unsent-buffer () (interactive) (switch-to-buffer-regexp "\*unsent .*\*") ) (provide 'switch-to-buffer) -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 https://dataswamp.org/~incal