Re: How to bring previous-buffer to cycle through the full list of buffers

["Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>]

Am 07.05.2015 um 16:42 schrieb Jürgen Hartmann:
> Thank you, Andreas Roehler, for your suggestion:
>
>> Not exactly what you are asking for:
>>
>> AFAIU it's about to jump back to a certain buffer.
> Not exactly, I meant cycling through all available buffers.
>
>> In use here are a kind of hard-coded registers.
>>
>> Like that:
>>
>> (defun gehe-zu-register-x (&optional arg)
>>     "With  C-u: Puffer merken"
>>     (interactive "P")
>>     (if arg
>>         (progn
>>       (window-configuration-to-register ?x)
>>       (message "%s" "Fenster mit \[C-kp-1] oder \\C-x j x erreichbar"))
>>       (jump-to-register ?x)
>>       (delete-other-windows)
>>       (message "%s"   "Mit Arg.: Puffer merken")))
>>
>> ;;;;;
>>
>> (global-set-key [(control kp-1)] 'gehe-zu-register-x)
>>
>> I.e. C-u C-kp-1 stores it.
> This implements a nice bookmark functionality. But as said before, my focus
> is on cycling trough all buffers. It is very much like previous-buffer already
> does, but it should bring up all buffers.
>
> The background is that I typically have a more or less fixed arrangement of
> windows--one larger one on the right half of the screen to do the actual edit
> stuff, some smaller ones in a vertical split of the left hand side--and just
> want to quickly alter the buffer that any of these windows shows.
>
> Of course one could use switch-to-buffer and enter the respective buffer's
> name, but if there are not so much buffers it is faster to quickly cycle
> through all of them until the right one is shown.
>
>> HTH,
>>
>> Andreas
> Thank you very much.
>
> Juergen
>
>   		 	   		

Hmm, when it is about to restore some older windows configuration, 
previous-buffer and the like will not do it, as being volatile.

You could use result of (current-window-configuration) similar to 
registered positions as shown.

Then (set-window-configuration MY-last-window-configuration), now 
jumping to subsequent stores.

Cheers,

Andreas