From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert Thorpe Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Feeling lost without tabs Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 19:02:48 +0100 Message-ID: <8761irewmv.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1405879407 17126 80.91.229.3 (20 Jul 2014 18:03:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 18:03:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Sampath Weerasinghe Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 20 20:03:20 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1X8vSA-0006VM-Cg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Jul 2014 20:03:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58540 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X8vS9-0003N3-S6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Jul 2014 14:03:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60738) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X8vRs-0003Mv-Jw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jul 2014 14:03:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X8vRj-0003JA-Kl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jul 2014 14:03:00 -0400 Original-Received: from outbound-smtp01.blacknight.com ([81.17.249.7]:44934) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X8vRj-0003HW-F0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jul 2014 14:02:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.blacknight.com (pemlinmail04.blacknight.ie [81.17.254.17]) by outbound-smtp01.blacknight.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AC38C027B for ; Sun, 20 Jul 2014 18:02:33 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: (qmail 5244 invoked from network); 20 Jul 2014 18:02:50 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO RTLaptop) (rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com@[109.76.62.180]) by 81.17.254.9 with ESMTPSA (DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA encrypted, authenticated); 20 Jul 2014 18:02:49 -0000 In-Reply-To: (message from Sampath Weerasinghe on Sat, 19 Jul 2014 18:47:47 -0700) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 81.17.249.7 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:98829 Archived-At: Sampath Weerasinghe writes: ... > I know C-x C-b pops it up, but involves multiple keys and it also > takes a a lot of screen real estate. > > I'm wondering how others overcame this. There are many ways to deal with this, as others have shown. I often leave Emacs open on a buffer list to remind myself of what I was doing. I remap the keys C-x LEFT and C-x RIGHT to shorter combinations (I use C-4 & C-5). If I know the buffer isn't one of the ones I've used recently I use C-x b is I know it's name, if not I use C-x C-b. I've mapped C-x C-b to buffer-menu-other-window. That only changes one thing compared to the default, it makes the cursor move to the buffer-menu. I find that useful because the buffer-menu has useful navigation keys. For example, "1" will make the selected buffer fill the whole frame. "2" is useful too, do C-h m in a buffer menu and you'll find some useful keybindings. Like Eli I tend to use tag following when I'm navigating code. BR, Robert Thorpe