From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: moving between buffers side-by-side using the keyboard Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 11:11:14 -0800 Message-ID: <877f4rw9pp.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <87inobslll.fsf@skimble.plus.com> <87fujfk56y.fsf@fastmail.fm> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1487185927 8880 195.159.176.226 (15 Feb 2017 19:12:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 19:12:07 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.130014 (Ma Gnus v0.14) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 15 20:12:03 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ce4zf-0001oB-RX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Feb 2017 20:11:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42569 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ce4zl-0002NT-Ke for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Feb 2017 14:12:05 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55573) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ce4zD-0002NB-PZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Feb 2017 14:11:32 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ce4zA-0007kA-MP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Feb 2017 14:11:31 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=47368 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ce4zA-0007j7-Eu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Feb 2017 14:11:28 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ce4z0-0007Oa-2t for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Feb 2017 20:11:18 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:T6Hpfo1QMvSxw8XpimuvGoL4Geo= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:112327 Archived-At: Joost Kremers writes: > On Wed, Feb 15 2017, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> If I have two buffers open, side-by-side, how can I move from the >> right >> buffer to the left buffer via the keyboard please? > > `C-x o' is the default key binding. There are various packages that > make moving between windows more convenient. See e.g., windmove or > ace-window, but there are others. The best emacs configuration I ever did was to bind "M-o" to `other-window'. The font is useless to me, and switching windows is such a common thing. I feel like it's contributed significantly to my emacs sanity :)