From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Jump to man page buffer Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 09:26:27 -0600 Organization: IHS Message-ID: References: <8764fw22a3.fsf@gmail.com> <873bb0vi5h.fsf@herrrossi.mmweg.rwth-aachen.de> <87ejukwtw9.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1157988491 13365 80.91.229.2 (11 Sep 2006 15:28:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 15:28:11 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 11 17:28:10 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 1GMnhb-0006Ob-IM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 17:28:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GMnhb-0002Zh-1T for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 11:28:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GMnhK-0002Zb-Jc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 11:27:46 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GMnhK-0002ZH-7a for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 11:27:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GMnhK-0002ZE-2T for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 11:27:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GMnic-0007FF-66 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 11:29:06 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GMnh3-0006Hx-UB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 17:27:29 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.206 ([207.167.42.206]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 17:27:29 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.206 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 17:27:29 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.206 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719) In-Reply-To: <87ejukwtw9.fsf@gmail.com> 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:37292 Archived-At: Hadron Quark wrote: > Out of curiosity what would the function be called to "jump to named > buffer"? I had written my first bit of lisp to construct a legitimate > buffer name but "switch to buffer" switches the named buffer into the > current one, so I had 2 buffers with the manpage in :) See the Displaying Buffers [in Windows] node of the Emacs Lisp manual, which describes the details. Generally the best way to respect the user's preferences is to use pop-to-buffer. -- Kevin