From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joost Kremers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Looking for a buffer-cycling library Date: 16 Nov 2014 10:15:55 GMT Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1416133222 18810 80.91.229.3 (16 Nov 2014 10:20:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 10:20:22 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 16 11:20:19 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XpwwN-0007b9-6u for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 11:20:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43377 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XpwwM-0002ij-Pa for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 05:20:18 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 31 Original-X-Trace: individual.net JODwSNpIJOfUrr9v7JedrAeiY7GGgfOj86oE2zey4CAwLVblBC Cancel-Lock: sha1:l6xEd3v+v4XzUZLHKRX8Hgb3pmY= Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Editor: Emacs of course! User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.0-18 (Linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:208679 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:100956 Archived-At: Marcin Borkowski wrote: > > On 2014-11-15, at 12:31, Joost Kremers wrote: > >> Tim Johnson wrote: >>> I'm looking for a buffer cycling mechanism that will ignore any >>> buffer not loaded from or written to a file. >>> >>> Example - any buffer whose name begins with '*' would be "jumped >>> over" > > Just my 2 cents: why not use Icicles? Because, AFAIU, with Icicles you still need to type `C-x b` to switch buffers. swbuff displays a list of buffers and allows you to cycle through them. I've bound the relevant cycling commands to `C-TAB` and `S-C-TAB`, so I can just press the control key and hit TAB a number of times to get to the buffer I want. I usually don't have too many open files, so most of the time I only need to hit TAB a few times. Buffer switching is much faster that way than by pressing `C-x b` and typing part of the buffer name. I've recently bound `ido-switch-buffer` to `s-g`, making it a bit quicker than `C-x b`, but I notice I still prefer to use C-TAB. -- Joost Kremers joostkremers@fastmail.fm Selbst in die Unterwelt dringt durch Spalten Licht EN:SiS(9)