From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hadron Quark Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Easier buffer navigtion (alt-tabbing?) Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 21:49:21 +0200 Organization: CERN LHC - http://public.web.cern.ch/public/ Message-ID: <87k64bjyda.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87y7ss6ps0.fsf@kip.sateh.com> <87irjvub8i.fsf@gmail.com> <87k64b7p13.fsf@kip.sateh.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1157920829 19594 80.91.229.2 (10 Sep 2006 20:40:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 20:40:29 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 10 22:40:29 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GMW6K-0001gW-20 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 22:40:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GMW6J-0001W9-CB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 16:40:23 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Trace: individual.net g5PV0P3B5K7oKeU/ufxXTQbBq82BCzBXb/QwgOSf3qIsiuAcdo X-Orig-Path: news.ibm.net!news X-Face: 2h#||Cd#d%F*NCm59[_6/{1a@jy%; |j>{D~4^gKg(^i%7j0IK?+,/GmW&:CD5fEKb_! User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:UhHqiyV2L0OjrPCdiTsIW/9AeYk= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:141658 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:37281 Archived-At: Stefan Arentz writes: > Hadron Quark writes: > >> Stefan Arentz writes: >> >> > Is there a way that makes it easier to navigate through buffers? What I >> > would really like is something like alt-tab to popup a list of recent >> > buffer to quickly switch back and forth between them. Does such an >> > extension exist? >> > >> > S. >> >> I use the bs stuff and the cyclebuffer stuff in emacs-goodies which >> comes in ubuntu. > > Excellent. This is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks! > > S. Glad to help : god knows I needed enough when I started with emacs again. Do try the (iswitchb-mode 1) in your .emacs too - I tried it today and "C-x b" followed by any substring of a buffer name gets there quick too. --