Re: Two quick questions

[Peter Tury <tury.peter@gmail.com>]

Giacomo Boffi <giacomo.boffi@polimi.it> writes:

>>    1: To switch to another buffer, after issue C-x b, and type
>>       something in minibuffer followed by Tab for completion, is
>>       there any way to scroll through those possible completions in
>>       minibuffer, instead of having to type more words or go to the
>>       newly opened buffer to chose one ?

After C-x b, you can go through all the possible elements (buffer
names) right inside the minibuffer by repeating C-s as many times as
adequate.

Also note, that when you type something into the minibuffer (after C-x
b) it is not necessarily the beginnig of a buffer's name: it can be
the middle or end of it: e.g. if you have several abcdefghijkl....txt
buffers but want to visit the only one abcdefghijkl...hlp, then you
can type ".h" and it will skip to the desired file immediately...

Maybe you have to set the variable icomplete-mode to t in your .emacs
file for this?

Br,
P