Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!ukc!stl!irw From: irw@stl.stc.co.uk (Ian Woollard) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Buffer handling in GNU Emacs 18.55 Summary: Help wanted Message-ID: <3848@stl.stc.co.uk> Date: 11 Dec 90 15:27:30 GMT References: <2855@archive.BBN.COM> Sender: news@stl.stc.co.uk Reply-To: "Ian Woollard" Organization: STC Technology Limited, London Road, Harlow, Essex, UK Lines: 30 Multiple buffer handling in Emacs has always struck me as a little bit clumsy, albeit fully functional. I frequently have a lot of buffers which have long, similar names... Pressing the complete keys and get me there, ... eventually. What I want to do is to be able to flip quickly between several buffers, without having to rename them to something short, or have to go to the buffer menu. I don't know of any built in mechanism for this in Emacs. Suggestions: a) have a way of rotating the buffer list, in either direction. b) have a way of completing buffer names that makes guesses as to what I mean c) have a method of iconifying buffers (or something like this) d) have another mark that I can put on a buffer, so that I can bind a key to find that buffer Of this a) is the simplest, in fact Emacs can nearly do this with 'bury-buffer' command, but as far as I know there is no command to 'unbury-buffer'. b) Would also be extremely good idea, but a lot harder... I've never done a line of lisp in my life, I tried doing a) as a keyboard macro but failed. Anybody ever done this? Or done any other thing like this? -Ian.