cycle-buffer with emacs HEAD

cycle-buffer with emacs HEAD

[Rob Kramer]

Hia,

I've been using cycle-buffer.el for ages as my buffer switching mechanism,
but it doesn't work quite right on CVS emacs. This is not recent, it's
never worked with post-21.3 CVS versions. It's very difficult to describe
the problem, but it comes down to cycle-buffer switching to the wrong
buffer sometimes. 

An indication of the problem is in the switcher status bar, which normally
looks something like:

    device.h devicestore.cc [Makefile] foo.cc device.cc

Where the bracketed buffer is currently selected. On CVS emacs, it looks
like:

    device.h devicestore.cc [Makefile] [] foo.cc device.cc

..and will often pick the wrong buffer, which is very annoying.

Does anyone else use cycle-buffer? The (most recent I can find) version I'm
using is at http://www.bookshelf.jp/elc/cycle-buffer.el, which is pretty
old already. 

I know almost nothing of emacs-lisp, but could pick it up if someone can
tell me where to start looking for this problem..

I'm surprised cycle-buffer seems unmaintained. Are there better ones out
there?

Cheers,

    Rob

RE: cycle-buffer with emacs HEAD

[Drew Adams]

I can't answer your questions about cycle-buffer, but there are many similar
alternative packages. Take a look here:

 - http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/SwitchingBuffers

 - http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/CategoryBufferSwitching


-----Original Message-----
I've been using cycle-buffer.el for ages as my buffer switching mechanism,
but it doesn't work quite right on CVS emacs. I'm surprised cycle-buffer
seems unmaintained. Are there better ones out
there?