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: moving around multiple buffers Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:33:28 -0600 Message-ID: References: <7f4hieF2ip8t3U1@mid.individual.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1250904866 23196 80.91.229.12 (22 Aug 2009 01:34:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 01:34:26 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 22 03:34:20 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MefUp-00083N-2p for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Aug 2009 03:34:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45424 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MefUo-0002oS-Hp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:34:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MefUU-0002oN-2i for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:33:58 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MefUO-0002oB-NN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:33:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=55376 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MefUO-0002o8-H4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:33:52 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:42285) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MefUN-0007T0-UV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:33:52 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1MefUM-0007wG-D0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Aug 2009 03:33:50 +0200 Original-Received: from c-71-237-24-138.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([71.237.24.138]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 22 Aug 2009 03:33:50 +0200 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-71-237-24-138.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 22 Aug 2009 03:33:50 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-71-237-24-138.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Macintosh/20090605) In-Reply-To: <7f4hieF2ip8t3U1@mid.individual.net> X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:67372 Archived-At: Tamas K Papp wrote: > Hi, > > I have seen screenshots of Emacs running with many buffers. For > example, having Emacs on the whole screen and splitting the buffers > like this: > > A|B > -+- > C|D > > I know how to do the splitting, but I am curious about what people use > to move around. Using C-x o (other-window) is a pain with many > windows, same applies to selecting buffers by name (at least for me), > and I want to avoid using the mouse for this. I am thinking of > something like "move to buffer B, regardless of what is there". > > I am interested in how other people handle these setups. .emacs > snippets are welcome, too. Also, feel free to tell me if I am > trying to do something silly that does not mesh well with Emacs. I'm an old guy from the Unix click-to-type school. But the one thing I like about Emacs on Windows is the focus-follows-mouse behavior out of the box. `M-x apropos' is your friend. -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA