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From: manderso@spain.mpr.ca (Mark Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Buffer handling in GNU Emacs 18.55
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Date: 11 Dec 90 22:11:22 GMT
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In article <3848@stl.stc.co.uk>
"Ian Woollard" <irw@stl.stc.co.uk> writes:
>What I want to do is to be able to flip quickly between several buffers,
[...]
>a) have a way of rotating the buffer list, in either direction.
[...]
>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'.

(defun unbury-buffer ()
  "Switch to the last buffer in the buffer list."
  (interactive)
  (switch-to-buffer
   (nth (1- (length (buffer-list))) (buffer-list))))

I have bury-buffer and unbury-buffer bound to adjacent function keys,
making it easy to cycle through the buffer list.  Oh, and you might like
M-x electric-buffer-list.
-- 
Mark Anderson
manderso@mprgate.mpr.ca