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From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: moving around multiple buffers
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:33:28 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <h6nht7$mi8$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7f4hieF2ip8t3U1@mid.individual.net>

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.  Using C-x o (other-window) is a pain with many
> windows, same applies to selecting buffers by name (at least for me),
> and I want to avoid using the mouse for this.  I am thinking of
> something like "move to buffer B, regardless of what is there".
> 
> I am interested in how other people handle these setups.  .emacs
> snippets are welcome, too.  Also, feel free to tell me if I am
> trying to do something silly that does not mesh well with Emacs.

I'm an old guy from the Unix click-to-type school.  But the one
thing I like about Emacs on Windows is the focus-follows-mouse
behavior out of the box.

`M-x apropos' is your friend.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA





      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-08-22  1:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-20  8:58 moving around multiple buffers Tamas K Papp
2009-08-20  9:21 ` Joost Kremers
2009-08-20  9:56   ` Lennart Borgman
     [not found]   ` <mailman.4882.1250762244.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-08-20 10:10     ` Joost Kremers
2009-08-20 10:23       ` Tamas K Papp
2009-08-20 10:43         ` Joost Kremers
2009-08-20 14:07           ` Stefan Kamphausen
2009-08-20 22:29             ` Joost Kremers
2009-08-20 16:08         ` Farhan Ahmed
     [not found]         ` <mailman.5013.1250859765.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-08-21 15:03           ` Xah Lee
2009-08-21 16:07             ` Stefan Kamphausen
2009-08-20 10:11 ` Xah Lee
2009-08-21  5:50   ` Torben Knudsen
2009-08-21  7:12     ` Xah Lee
2009-08-21 16:56       ` Benjamin Andresen
2009-08-22  2:35         ` Xah Lee
2009-08-20 15:17 ` Drew Adams
2009-08-20 16:45 ` A.Politz
2009-08-20 17:01 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
2009-08-22  1:33 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]

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