Re: managing buffers

[Daniel C. Bastos]

Rainer Stengele <rainer.stengele@diplan.de> writes:

> Daniel C. Bastos schrieb:
> > How do you guys manage your buffers? I'm currently using cycle-buffer.el
> > and I attach the non-permissive functions to [f1] and [f2] and then I go
> > back and forth between buffers with these keys, which is fast and nice.
> > 
> > It's nice to be able to go back to the last buffer you were in, but
> > sometimes you have too many buffers open and you know which one you
> > want, so you don't want to search your ring of buffers one by one. For
> > that I usually C-x b and use TAB to complete my buffer name. 
> > 
> > I usually use the GNU emacs on terminals, not on X, so speedbar is not
> > really helpful there. Besides, I rather leave the mouse aside. So
> > although I have an okay buffer management, I sometimes feel it could be
> > better; so I was wondering how you guys do it.
> 
> I am very glad with this:
> 
> (require 'bs)
> (global-set-key "\C-x\C-b" 'bs-show)
> 
> ;; invoke buffer-list with C-F11
> (global-set-key [(control f11)] 'bs-show)

Hm, this seems good, but I guess I need a way to set up what will be
listed; not all my buffers are showing up. I'll be reading the info
files on these functions.

> and this:
> 
> ;; M-F12 opens a buffer that contains the recent opened buffers
> ;;recentf
> (require 'recentf)
> (recentf-mode 1)
> (setq recentf-max-saved-items 500)
> (setq recentf-max-menu-items 60)
> (global-set-key [(control f12)] 'recentf-open-files)

Quite useful too. Thanks.