Re: rotating between buffers

[Fernando Dobladez <ferd@fuego.com>]

I'd use the 'bs' package (comes standard in Emacs 21.x) it's a wonderful 
replacement for C-x C-b, and it also provides bs-cycle-next and 
bs-cycle-previous functions (that do what you want)

As a bonus, those "cycle" functions skip the temporary buffers (if you 
want to).

Example bindings:

(global-set-key "\C-x\C-b" 'bs-show) ;;
(global-set-key (kbd "<f6>") 'bs-cycle-next)
(global-set-key (kbd "<S-f6>") 'bs-cycle-previous)


You could also try pc-bufsw.el, it tries to mimic Windows' Alt-TAB behavior.

Fer

Stevens, Brigham wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am trying to convince a co-worker to use emacs. He will do it if 
> there is a key stroke that will allow him to rotate between active 
> buffers, like alt-tab in windows allows you to cycle through windows.
>
> I am totally down with ctrl-x b to go to a named buffer, and ctrl-x 
> ctrl-b to get the buffer list, and even control -left click to get a 
> buffer menu pop-up... but It has to be a keystroke according to him..
>
> So is there any such command built in to emacs to do this, or does 
> anyone have something I can add on?
>
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> --brigham
>