EmacsWiki: Category Buffer Switching (original) (raw)

This page is about different libraries and ways to switch buffers. As always, you can click the title heading to list all pages related to buffer switching.

• SwitchingBuffers – Discussion comparing the various packages.
• ControlTABbufferCycling – methods which use or are similar to a most recently used stack of buffers, like MS Windows alt-tab

The following are specific tricks and packages for buffer switching.

• Anything – can be used to switch to a buffer
• BubbleBuffer - Similar to CycleBuffer, QuickBufferCycle, etc.
• BufferMenu – Like Dired, but for buffers – same thing as ListBuffers, but lets you also act on the buffers
• BufferMenuPlus – BufferMenu and ListBuffers enhancements
• BufferQuickSwitcher – Another way to switch buffers
• BufferRing – simpler MTorus like rings
• BufferSelection – BufferMenu alternative
• CategorizingInformationManager – ‘ee-buffers’ for buffer switching
• cOpenRelational – keeping in touch between header file and source file for C or C++
• CycleBuffer – switch to next/previous significant buffer
• DoReMi – ‘doremi-buffers’ (‘C-x t b’): cycle among buffers
• EasyBufferSwitch – A combination of number-indexed switch and cycle switch
• ElectricBufferList – BufferMenu alternative
• FindHeaderFile – open C/C++ header file on current line
• FindOtherFile – GNU Emacs has this built-in capability for finding related files (e.g. C/C++ header files)
• FrameBufs – BufferMenu and ListBuffers enhancements for frame-relative buffer lists
• IbufferMode – BufferMenu alternative
• Icicles – switch among buffers – cycling and enhanced completion. Perform actions on selected buffers or sets of buffers.
• iflipb – interactively flip between recently visited buffers
• InteractivelyDoThings – Same as IswitchBuffers, for buffers, but also affects file access
• IswitchBuffers – choose buffer without a menu (name-based)
• Lisp:contentswitch.el]] – switch buffers by their content
• Lisp:jump-or-exec.el]] – Jump to a buffer matched by buffer name, or call function when not found. See also jump-or-exec from sawfish.
• ListBuffers – List buffers (default behavior for ‘C-x C-b’)
• LustyExplorer – Dynamic filesystem explorer and buffer switcher
• MTorus – provides navigation on a discrete 2-torus of buffers
• PerWindowPoint – Enable each window to remember and return to its value of point in each buffer it has displayed.
• PinBar – create tabs at the top and switch associated buffers with a single stroke
• PointStack – go back to places in buffers that you’ve marked
• Quick Buffer Switch – Switch to buffer using intelligent predicates.
• QuickBufferCycle – Quickly switch to the previous buffer or the Nth previous one by pressing the same key repeatedly.
• RecreateScratchBuffer – when *scratch* disappears
• ShortList – an efficient way to access a short list of buffers
• SwBuff – another way to cycle among buffers
• TabBarMode – buffer tabs using arrow keys and/or mouse wheel