From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: moving between buffers side-by-side using the keyboard Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 08:07:47 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: <87inobslll.fsf@skimble.plus.com> <87a89nzlmm.fsf@skimble.plus.com> <87efyzk4p7.fsf@fastmail.fm> <87k28rimsk.fsf@skimble.plus.com> <60a47df2-c660-4be7-88ad-03e0d1185053@default> <87h93v5veo.fsf@skimble.plus.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1487175293 5448 195.159.176.226 (15 Feb 2017 16:14:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 16:14:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Joost Kremers , help-emacs , Filipe Silva To: Sharon Kimble Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 15 17:14:48 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 1ce2E9-0000ud-6y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Feb 2017 17:14:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41597 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ce2EE-0001FE-S1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Feb 2017 11:14:50 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33075) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ce27e-0004J4-HJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Feb 2017 11:08:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ce27b-00069u-0D for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Feb 2017 11:08:02 -0500 Original-Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:19275) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ce27a-00068L-Mv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Feb 2017 11:07:58 -0500 Original-Received: from userv0022.oracle.com (userv0022.oracle.com [156.151.31.74]) by aserp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id v1FG7qFX032069 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 15 Feb 2017 16:07:53 GMT Original-Received: from aserv0122.oracle.com (aserv0122.oracle.com [141.146.126.236]) by userv0022.oracle.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id v1FG7pdX011174 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 15 Feb 2017 16:07:52 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0009.oracle.com (abhmp0009.oracle.com [141.146.116.15]) by aserv0122.oracle.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id v1FG7miK018024; Wed, 15 Feb 2017 16:07:49 GMT In-Reply-To: <87h93v5veo.fsf@skimble.plus.com> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.9.1 (1003210) [OL 12.0.6753.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: userv0022.oracle.com [156.151.31.74] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 141.146.126.69 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:112325 Archived-At: > Unfortunately I don't have the time to bisect my config, I need the time > for my book that I'm writing. Maybe I'll have the time at the weekend. OK, but just let me harp on this one more time (because we've all been there): It is very quick. It _seems_ slow at first. And yes, it's dumb. But it's power is exponential - it quickly gets very quick. ;-) Think of the old story of doubling the grains of rice on a chessboard. Yes, at first it seems like very little rice is involved... The slowest part of this particular binary search is to restart Emacs each time, after you've commented out part of your init file. But the more that is commented out, the closer the startup becomes to a virgin startup (i.e., `emacs -Q': no init file). > I accept that I used wrong terminology for my problem, but I felt that > calling it a 'buffer' would show what I was thinking and asking about. I didn't mean it as a pedantic remark or a criticism. Emacs terminology takes some getting used to. But as you can see from the replies, what you were really looking for was a way to switch windows, even though that was not "what [you thought you] were thinking about". This stuff is not obvious, and there is no shame in using non "official" terminology. But learning a bit of the jargon can really help you find what you're looking for more easily.