From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Oliver Scholz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Switching between buffers in split windows Date: 18 Oct 2002 12:06:24 +0200 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1034959836 1467 80.91.224.249 (18 Oct 2002 16:50:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 16:50:36 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 182aKV-0000Ml-00 for ; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 18:50:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 182Zpt-0001Hd-00; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 12:18:53 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!dialin-145-254-200-195.arcor-ip.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 27 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: dialin-145-254-200-195.arcor-ip.net (145.254.200.195) Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1034935593 24869452 145.254.200.195 (16 [87814]) X-Face: "HgH2sgK|bfH$;PiOJI6|qUCf.ve<51_Od(%ynHr?=>znn#~#oS>",F%B8&\vus),2AsPYb -n>PgddtGEn}s7kH?7kH{P_~vu?]OvVN^qD(L)>G^gDCl(U9n{:d>'DkilN!_K"eNzjrtI4Ya6;Td% IZGMbJ{lawG+'J>QXPZD&TwWU@^~A}f^zAb[Ru;CT(UA]c& X-Attribution: os X-Operating-System: GNU/Linux, built from scratch: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:106168 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:2699 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:2699 "Felix E. Klee" writes: > Hi, > > I already asked this on comp.emacs a couple of days ago but got only one > reply via email from someone who misunderstood my post. Now, the message: > > Often, I split an EMACS window horizontally into two windows to edit two > different portions of the same buffer *A*. Sometimes, I need to temporarily > switch to another buffer *B* via "C-x b" in one of the windows. This works > fine and quick. However, hitting "C-x b" again doesn't return me to where I > came from, but instead displays another buffer *C* because *A* is already > displayed. Of course, this is how it's supposed to work, but I want to > change that behavior: > > How do I make "C-x b" redisplay the portion of *A* that I was editing > previously? [...] You could activate `winner-mode' (q. v.) and then switch back to the previous window-configuration with C-x . This is how I do this. -- Oliver -- 27 Vendémiaire an 211 de la Révolution Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité!