From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Amin Bandali Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Rmail: toggle between summary and message buffers Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 18:26:16 -0400 Message-ID: <87a7eeediv.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <83a7eeuc8t.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="67168"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Xavier Maillard To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 19 00:26:44 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hdMYt-000HO2-Hc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Jun 2019 00:26:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33884 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hdMYs-0004Ce-J4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Jun 2019 18:26:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:51260) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hdMYa-00049U-5F for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Jun 2019 18:26:25 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:54251) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hdMYY-0008C2-RK; Tue, 18 Jun 2019 18:26:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.159.176.171] (port=54886 helo=localhost) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1hdMYY-0006Bf-2K; Tue, 18 Jun 2019 18:26:22 -0400 Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii , Xavier Maillard In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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:120974 Archived-At: Xavier Maillard writes: >> Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 18:47:14 +0300 >> From: Eli Zaretskii >>=20 >> > Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 06:20:00 +0200 >> > From: Xavier Maillard >> > Jabber-ID: xavier@maillard.im >> >=20 >> > since quite recently, I would have used only the Rmail message >> > buffer. Then I discovered C-M-h aka `rmail-summary' which is quite >> > convenient. There is something quite annoying though, I do not know >> > how to switch from rmail-summary's buffer and rmail buffer. >> >=20 >> > I have read the manual and info pages but I am pretty sure there is no >> > pretty simple way to do so. >>=20 >> I don't understand the question. Both Rmail buffer and Rmail Summary >> buffer are just buffers, so you switch between then just like between >> any other two buffers. What am I missing? > > Maybe I am not clear (english is not my native tongue, sorry). > > So, I need a quick, direct and easy way to switch from a message > buffer to the rmail-summary buffer and vice-versa. > > Currently, I am doing a lot of `C-x o' but as soon as there is more > than one window, this is getting quite useless. > I haven=E2=80=99t ever used rmail, but Gnus has a pair of functions gnus-summary-select-article-buffer and gnus-article-show-summary, bound to h in gnus-summary-mode-map and gnus-article-mode-map respectively, which allow conveniently switching between the summary buffer and the message buffer. I think Xavier is looking for a similar pair of functions for rmail, as opposed to having to use the general other-window bound to C-x o.