Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!comp.vuw.ac.nz!byrd From: Mike.Williams@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Mike Williams) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: Buffer handling in GNU Emacs 18.55 Message-ID: Date: 12 Dec 90 01:49:19 GMT References: <2855@archive.BBN.COM> <3848@stl.stc.co.uk> Sender: news@comp.vuw.ac.nz (News Admin) Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Victoria Uni. of Wellington, NZ. Lines: 31 Nntp-Posting-Host: downstage.comp.vuw.ac.nz In-Reply-To: irw@stl.stc.co.uk's message of 11 Dec 90 15:27:30 GMT +-- In article <3848@stl.stc.co.uk> irw@stl.stc.co.uk (Ian Woollard) writes: | | 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. A number of people have posted solutions to this in the past, the simplest being binding two keys to \\[bury-buffer] and \\[switch-to-buffer] respectively. I have a slightly bulkier package, which pops up a list of buffers as it rotates. I'll post it to gnu.emacs.sources in the next couple of days. (If you don't get the gnu groups, let me know and I'll email you a copy). | b) have a way of completing buffer names that makes guesses as to what I | mean It sounds like you need Dave Gillespie's partial-completion package, which will attempt to "guess what you mean" when completing buffer names, file names, elisp symbols, etc. in the minibuffer. You can FTP partial-comp.el from the Elisp archive at ohio-state. partial-comp (1.04) David Gillespie, Address: tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Directory: pub/gnu/emacs/elisp-archive/packages File: partial-comp.el.Z -- /-------------------- byrd@comp.vuw.ac.nz --------------------\ | Mike Williams, Victoria University of Wellington, Aotearoa. | \-------- Yesterday, I ... no, wait, that wasn't me. ---------/