Re: Shortcut to change buffers?

[Tim X]

JS <d44sf@44ada.com> writes:

> Tim X wrote:
>
>> JS <d44sf@44ada.com> writes:
>> 
>>> Quokka wrote:
>>>
>>>> Ryan Bowman wrote:
>>>>>>>> Is there a shortcut combination that lets you
>>>>>>
>>>>>>shift between the
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> different buffers?
>>>>>>>
>>>> 
>>>> I use tabbar mode, this provides a nice graphical display
>>>> of the buffers and provides functions for next buffer
>>>> and prev buffer.
>>>> 
>>>> link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/emhacks/
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Paul
>>>
>>>
>>> Could you give a short explanation on how to make it work?
>>> I have made this in my .emacs file:
>>>
>>> (require 'tabbar)
>>>
>>> But when I restart emacs I get this error:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> An error has occurred while loading `/home/johs/.emacs':
>>>
>>> File error: "Cannot open load file", "tabbar"
>>>
>>> To ensure normal operation, you should investigate the cause
>>> of the error in your initialization file and remove it.  Start
>>> Emacs with the `--debug-init' option to view a complete error
>>> backtrace
>>>
>>> ------------------------
>>>
>>> I have placed the tabbar.el file in my load path.
>>>
>> 
>> check your load-path variable is correct. C-h load-path <ret>
>> check you have the correct read mode/permissions on the file
>> 
>> Tim
>
>
> Ok I found out that I needed to press C-h v "load-path". I get a big list of
> all my load-paths and all my .el files are in one of them sp that should be
> ok.
>
> As I wrote before my setnu.el mode is working so I compared the permissions
> with that for tabbar and they are the same.
>
> So its in my load path and the permissions should be ok...what could else be
> the problem?

OK, then try loading the file by hand. Type M-x load-file <ret>
/path/to/file.el <ret> and see if you get any errors. 

Tim

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