Re: moving around multiple buffers

[Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Joost Kremers<joostkremers@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Tamas K Papp wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have seen screenshots of Emacs running with many buffers.  For
>> example, having Emacs on the whole screen and splitting the buffers
>> like this:
>>
>> A|B
>> -+-
>> C|D
>>
>> I know how to do the splitting, but I am curious about what people use
>> to move around.
>
> check out windmove.el (which comes with emacs). essentially:
>
> (windmove-default-keybindings)
>
> in ~/.emacs and you can switch windows with shift+<arrow_key>. you can also
> choose another modifier key. windmove.el is fully documented.


Since most modern computer GUI:s use shift+<arrow_key> to select text
it seems best to me to not use that for windmove. (They are the
default still in windmove, but that is because Emacs struggles with
backward compatibility. A struggle so hard that it can perhaps kill
Emacs.)

To avoid them you can just use for example

   (windmove-default-keybindings 'meta)

With this you move with meta+<arrow_key>.