Re: managing buffers

["Stefan Reichör" <stefan@xsteve.at>]

dbast0s@yahoo.com.br (Daniel C. Bastos) writes:

> How do you guys manage your buffers? I'm currently using cycle-buffer.el
> and I attach the non-permissive functions to [f1] and [f2] and then I go
> back and forth between buffers with these keys, which is fast and nice.
>
> It's nice to be able to go back to the last buffer you were in, but
> sometimes you have too many buffers open and you know which one you
> want, so you don't want to search your ring of buffers one by one. For
> that I usually C-x b and use TAB to complete my buffer name. 
>
> I usually use the GNU emacs on terminals, not on X, so speedbar is not
> really helpful there. Besides, I rather leave the mouse aside. So
> although I have an okay buffer management, I sometimes feel it could be
> better; so I was wondering how you guys do it.

I use ido, ibuffer and bubble-buffer.el, for details see:

http://www.xsteve.at/prg/emacs/power-user-tips.html#buffer-switching


Stefan.