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: switching frame focus Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 12:16:16 -0600 Organization: IHS 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 1146766897 12807 80.91.229.2 (4 May 2006 18:21:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 18:21:37 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 04 20:21:35 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FbiRv-00061X-0b for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 May 2006 20:21:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FbiRu-0001fj-D3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 May 2006 14:21:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FbiQy-00017b-QE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 May 2006 14:20:16 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FbiQy-000177-5c for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 May 2006 14:20:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FbiQx-00016w-My for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 May 2006 14:20:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FbiRc-0005Aw-El for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 May 2006 14:20:56 -0400 Original-Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FbiQl-0005qX-6y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 May 2006 20:20:03 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.206 ([207.167.42.206]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 04 May 2006 20:20:03 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.206 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 04 May 2006 20:20:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.206 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308) 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:34826 Archived-At: Ryan Krauss wrote: > 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. RTFM: `C-x 2' is documented in section 25.2 (Splitting Windows) of the Emacs manual, and section 25.3 (Using Other Windows) immediately follows and documents `C-x o'. -- Kevin