From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Shortcut to change buffers? Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 09:39:59 -0600 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1114098111 21673 80.91.229.2 (21 Apr 2005 15:41:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 15:41:51 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 21 17:41:48 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DOdnH-0005pb-7O for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 17:40:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DOds1-0007Lj-0Y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 11:45:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DOdrT-0007Gd-2P for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 11:45:03 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DOdrP-0007FJ-AQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 11:45:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DOdrP-00078x-5o for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 11:44:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA:16) (Exim 4.34) id 1DOdrA-0004w7-VT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 11:44:45 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1DOdjZ-0005Bt-TV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 17:36:53 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.60 ([207.167.42.60]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 17:36:53 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.60 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 17:36:53 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 31 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.60 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041105) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:25888 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:25888 JS wrote: > Joe Corneli wrote: > > From the tutorial (C-h T) -- which you should read all of -- > > Its not quite what I meant. I know its possible to change a buffer by C-x b > RET. > > But I don't think its very efficient that I need to type the buffers name > (enventhough I can use TAB to auto complete). > > It takes less time just to hold down ctrl and left mouse button at the same > time and then choose the buffer from that menu. > > What I thought of was something like using Alt-Tab to shift between windows, > where a menu pops up and you the find the buffer you need by repeately > pressing Tab while holding down Alt. Try `C-x C-b' (M-x list-buffers). Try `M-x electric-buffer-list', which I like enough to override that key binding: (global-set-key "\C-x\C-b" 'electric-buffer-list) ; was list-buffers Try `C-x b ?', but with TAB and M-TAB bound to cycle through the completions: http://www.emacswiki.org/elisp/minibuffer-complete-cycle.el -- Kevin Rodgers