From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Looking for a buffer-cycling library
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 19:01:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87389jt476.fsf@wmi.amu.edu.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <828513f5-92dc-49f2-91e6-4711146f4356@default>
On 2014-11-16, at 18:08, Drew Adams wrote:
>> >>> I'm looking for a buffer cycling mechanism that will ignore
>> >>> any buffer not loaded from or written to a file.
>> >>>
>> >>> Example - any buffer whose name begins with '*' would be
>> >>> "jumped over"
>> >
>> > Just my 2 cents: why not use Icicles?
>>
>> Because, AFAIU, with Icicles you still need to type `C-x b` to
>> switch buffers.
Fair enough. You are aware that you can rebind command in Emacs, right?
;-) ;-) ;-)
>> I usually don't have too many open files,
>
> I often have lots of buffers, including lots of open files.
I second that. My workflow involves seldom quitting Emacs (my current
emacs-uptime is almost 4 days, and it is so short only because my old
netbook hang on Wednesday and I had to reboot - quite often it reaches a
dozen days or so), and I almost never kill buffers - I usually just bury
them (I even have a special keybinding for that, C-u C-z C-b - see
http://mbork.pl/2014-04-04_Fast_buffer_switching_and_friends). So
cycling alone is not an option for me.
> An advantage of Icicles (and similar approaches) in this regard
> is that you can either cycle or name-match - or both. Typically,
> typing just a few chars narrows the candidate set to a few that
> you can then cycle among.
This is similar to Ido, which I'm (still) using.
> FWIW: I started down the road to cycling things with Do Re Mi.
> You can use it to cycle among various things or increment various
> things (hence the name). But in the cycling cases I have, Icicles
> generally gives better behavior, because it lets you combine
> cycling with matching (completion).
>
> One of the things I admonish new Icicles users about is this
> (in the section about cycling):
>
> Do not become a cycling drone!
Good advice!
> Cycling and filtering work hand in hand. If the set of
> candidates is small to begin with, then just cycling might be
> quick enough - that is the case if you move among a small set
> of buffers, for instance. But with Icicles you can profitably
> use cycling on even a very large set of candidates - by filtering
> the set first.
In Ido, I often use C-SPC, which takes what I've typed so far, restricts
the set of candidates to all the matches and lets my type again. This
way, I can e.g. type one part of the filename, then C-SPC, then another
part, then cycle. AFAIR, in Icicles you can do the same, with the
difference that keybindings are (probably) different, and the mechanism
is more general.
Best,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-16 18:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <mailman.13706.1416006724.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-11-15 11:31 ` Looking for a buffer-cycling library Joost Kremers
2014-11-15 14:59 ` Marcin Borkowski
2014-11-15 17:17 ` Drew Adams
2014-11-15 21:04 ` Marcin Borkowski
2014-11-15 23:41 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.13736.1416063601.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-11-16 10:15 ` Joost Kremers
[not found] ` <<slrnm6guar.a37.joost.m.kremers@j.kremers4.news.arnhem.chello.nl>
2014-11-16 17:08 ` Drew Adams
2014-11-16 18:01 ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2014-11-16 20:18 ` Drew Adams
2014-11-14 23:11 Tim Johnson
2014-11-15 1:34 ` Alexis
2014-11-15 3:32 ` Tim Johnson
2014-11-15 3:56 ` Alexis
2014-11-15 16:44 ` Tim Johnson
2014-11-15 17:19 ` Drew Adams
2014-11-15 20:32 ` Tim Johnson
2014-11-15 20:38 ` Drew Adams
2014-11-15 22:29 ` Tim Johnson
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