Re: Looking for a buffer-cycling library

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2014-11-15, at 18:17, Drew Adams wrote:

>> >> I'm looking for a buffer cycling mechanism that will ignore
>> >> any buffer not loaded from or written to a file.  Example -
>> >> any buffer whose name begins with '*' would be "jumped over"
>> 
>> Just my 2 cents: why not use Icicles?
>
> Icicles does let you "ignore any buffer not loaded from or
> written to a file".
>
> To do that, just use a positive prefix arg with `icicle-buffer':
> `M-1 C-x b'.  That limits the candidates to names of buffers
> visiting files & directories.

Wow.  Just wow.

In fact, I was thinking about feeding Icicles a regex like ^[^*].  Now I
can see there's no need to.

I'll put "throwing Ido out and embracing Icicles" higher on my priority
list.

> Here is the (long) doc for command `icicle-buffer' (`C-x b' in
> Icicle mode, by default):
> [...]

Incredible.

Regards,

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Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University