managing buffers

managing buffers

[Daniel C. Bastos]

How do you guys manage your buffers? I'm currently using cycle-buffer.el
and I attach the non-permissive functions to [f1] and [f2] and then I go
back and forth between buffers with these keys, which is fast and nice.

It's nice to be able to go back to the last buffer you were in, but
sometimes you have too many buffers open and you know which one you
want, so you don't want to search your ring of buffers one by one. For
that I usually C-x b and use TAB to complete my buffer name. 

I usually use the GNU emacs on terminals, not on X, so speedbar is not
really helpful there. Besides, I rather leave the mouse aside. So
although I have an okay buffer management, I sometimes feel it could be
better; so I was wondering how you guys do it.

Re: managing buffers

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 12.09.2007 um 08:39 schrieb Daniel C. Bastos:

> How do you guys manage your buffers?

C-x C-b, then visit this buffer, manoeuvre to the buffer you want to  
visit, f to follow.

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Re: managing buffers

[Kevin Rodgers]

Peter Dyballa wrote:
> 
> Am 12.09.2007 um 08:39 schrieb Daniel C. Bastos:
> 
>> How do you guys manage your buffers?
> 
> C-x C-b, then visit this buffer, manoeuvre to the buffer you want to 
> visit, f to follow.

Me too, but with this customization:

(global-set-key "\C-x\C-b" 'electric-buffer-list) ; default: list-buffers


-- 
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA

Re: managing buffers

[Tassilo Horn]

Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com> writes:

Hi,

>> C-x C-b, then visit this buffer, manoeuvre to the buffer you want to
>> visit, f to follow.
>
> Me too, but with this customization:
>
> (global-set-key "\C-x\C-b" 'electric-buffer-list) ; default: list-buffers

here's another nice variant, which fits my needs best:


  (global-set-key (kbd "C-x C-b") 'ibuffer)
  (setq ibuffer-sorting-mode 'recency)

For buffer-switching with C-x b I like iswitchb:

  (iswitchb-mode 1)

Bye,
Tassilo
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there was a stripper in it.

Re: managing buffers

[Rainer Stengele]

Daniel C. Bastos schrieb:
> How do you guys manage your buffers? I'm currently using cycle-buffer.el
> and I attach the non-permissive functions to [f1] and [f2] and then I go
> back and forth between buffers with these keys, which is fast and nice.
> 
> It's nice to be able to go back to the last buffer you were in, but
> sometimes you have too many buffers open and you know which one you
> want, so you don't want to search your ring of buffers one by one. For
> that I usually C-x b and use TAB to complete my buffer name. 
> 
> I usually use the GNU emacs on terminals, not on X, so speedbar is not
> really helpful there. Besides, I rather leave the mouse aside. So
> although I have an okay buffer management, I sometimes feel it could be
> better; so I was wondering how you guys do it.

I am very glad with this:

(require 'bs)
(global-set-key "\C-x\C-b" 'bs-show)

;; invoke buffer-list with C-F11
(global-set-key [(control f11)] 'bs-show)


and this:


;; M-F12 opens a buffer that contains the recent opened buffers
;;recentf
(require 'recentf)
(recentf-mode 1)
(setq recentf-max-saved-items 500)
(setq recentf-max-menu-items 60)
(global-set-key [(control f12)] 'recentf-open-files)

rainer

Re: managing buffers

[Daniel C. Bastos]

Rainer Stengele <rainer.stengele@diplan.de> writes:

> Daniel C. Bastos schrieb:
> > How do you guys manage your buffers? I'm currently using cycle-buffer.el
> > and I attach the non-permissive functions to [f1] and [f2] and then I go
> > back and forth between buffers with these keys, which is fast and nice.
> > 
> > It's nice to be able to go back to the last buffer you were in, but
> > sometimes you have too many buffers open and you know which one you
> > want, so you don't want to search your ring of buffers one by one. For
> > that I usually C-x b and use TAB to complete my buffer name. 
> > 
> > I usually use the GNU emacs on terminals, not on X, so speedbar is not
> > really helpful there. Besides, I rather leave the mouse aside. So
> > although I have an okay buffer management, I sometimes feel it could be
> > better; so I was wondering how you guys do it.
> 
> I am very glad with this:
> 
> (require 'bs)
> (global-set-key "\C-x\C-b" 'bs-show)
> 
> ;; invoke buffer-list with C-F11
> (global-set-key [(control f11)] 'bs-show)

Hm, this seems good, but I guess I need a way to set up what will be
listed; not all my buffers are showing up. I'll be reading the info
files on these functions.

> and this:
> 
> ;; M-F12 opens a buffer that contains the recent opened buffers
> ;;recentf
> (require 'recentf)
> (recentf-mode 1)
> (setq recentf-max-saved-items 500)
> (setq recentf-max-menu-items 60)
> (global-set-key [(control f12)] 'recentf-open-files)

Quite useful too. Thanks.

Re: managing buffers

[Daniel C. Bastos]

dbast0s@yahoo.com.br (Daniel C. Bastos) writes:

> Rainer Stengele <rainer.stengele@diplan.de> writes:
> 
> > Daniel C. Bastos schrieb:
> > > How do you guys manage your buffers? I'm currently using cycle-buffer.el
> > > and I attach the non-permissive functions to [f1] and [f2] and then I go
> > > back and forth between buffers with these keys, which is fast and nice.
> > > 
> > > It's nice to be able to go back to the last buffer you were in, but
> > > sometimes you have too many buffers open and you know which one you
> > > want, so you don't want to search your ring of buffers one by one. For
> > > that I usually C-x b and use TAB to complete my buffer name. 
> > > 
> > > I usually use the GNU emacs on terminals, not on X, so speedbar is not
> > > really helpful there. Besides, I rather leave the mouse aside. So
> > > although I have an okay buffer management, I sometimes feel it could be
> > > better; so I was wondering how you guys do it.
> > 
> > I am very glad with this:
> > 
> > (require 'bs)
> > (global-set-key "\C-x\C-b" 'bs-show)
> > 
> > ;; invoke buffer-list with C-F11
> > (global-set-key [(control f11)] 'bs-show)
> 
> Hm, this seems good, but I guess I need a way to set up what will be
> listed; not all my buffers are showing up. I'll be reading the info
> files on these functions.

Ah, just a little ``?'' resolved. This is very nice. I'm happy. Thanks.

Re: managing buffers

[Xavier Maillard]

Hi,

   > ;; M-F12 opens a buffer that contains the recent opened buffers
   > ;;recentf
   > (require 'recentf)
   > (recentf-mode 1)
   > (setq recentf-max-saved-items 500)
   > (setq recentf-max-menu-items 60)
   > (global-set-key [(control f12)] 'recentf-open-files)

   Quite useful too. Thanks.

Try GNU Emacs file cache feature too, it is as useful (or even
more) than recentf.

And if you want something that combines all of them and much
more, you can try the wonderful anything.el (and its companion
anything-config.el).

	Xavier
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Re: managing buffers

[Nikolaj Schumacher]

dbast0s@yahoo.com.br (Daniel C. Bastos) wrote:

> I usually C-x b and use TAB to complete my buffer name. 
I usually C-x b and use TAB to complete my buffer name. 

Is that the default C-x b?
Try using iswitchb-mode.  Satisfaction guaranteed. ;)


regards,
Nikolaj Schumacher

Re: managing buffers

[Stefan Reichör]

dbast0s@yahoo.com.br (Daniel C. Bastos) writes:

> How do you guys manage your buffers? I'm currently using cycle-buffer.el
> and I attach the non-permissive functions to [f1] and [f2] and then I go
> back and forth between buffers with these keys, which is fast and nice.
>
> It's nice to be able to go back to the last buffer you were in, but
> sometimes you have too many buffers open and you know which one you
> want, so you don't want to search your ring of buffers one by one. For
> that I usually C-x b and use TAB to complete my buffer name. 
>
> I usually use the GNU emacs on terminals, not on X, so speedbar is not
> really helpful there. Besides, I rather leave the mouse aside. So
> although I have an okay buffer management, I sometimes feel it could be
> better; so I was wondering how you guys do it.

I use ido, ibuffer and bubble-buffer.el, for details see:

http://www.xsteve.at/prg/emacs/power-user-tips.html#buffer-switching


Stefan.