navigating other buffers

navigating other buffers

[Eric Winger]

I have found myself on many occasions, within one buffer while a Buffer List, 
or Dired is in the other buffer. I can scroll that other buffer without 
leaving the safety and security of my own buffer using M<page down/up>. 

But I'd really like to be able to a remote Cn, Cp & f without leaving my own 
buffer. Is this possible in emacs? Basically, select lines from that other 
buffer and open new buffers without leaving my own buffers. 

thx much

Eric

Re: navigating other buffers

[Kai Großjohann]

Eric Winger <ewinger@keyww.com> writes:

> But I'd really like to be able to a remote Cn, Cp & f without
> leaving my own buffer. Is this possible in emacs? Basically, select
> lines from that other buffer and open new buffers without leaving my
> own buffers. 

No, I don't think this is (easily) possible.  There is vcursor.el
which gives you a second cursor, so to speak.  But it is for
navigating the current buffer only -- though it does auto-split the
window when necessary.

Maybe what you really want is to set a global mark and to then return
it it later on.  Hm.  With CUA mode, it seems that C-SPC pushes the
global mark and then you can use C-x C-@ to jump back to it.
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