[Solved] RE: How to bring previous-buffer to cycle through the full list of buffers

[Jürgen Hartmann]

Thank you, Martin Rudalics, for your solution:

>> After the windows history is exhausted by repetitively applying
>> previous-buffer, the cycling continues with all the other buffers in the
>> global buffer list, but this time unconditionally skipping those of them that
>> are visible in other windows--regardless of the setting in
>> switch-to-visible-buffer.
>
> Try to replace the line
>
>       (if (get-buffer-window buffer frame)
>
> with
>
>       (if (and (not switch-to-visible-buffer)
>            (get-buffer-window new-buffer frame))
>
> in both `switch-to-prev-buffer' and `switch-to-next-buffer' (move these
> functions to your .emacs if you cannot rebuild Emacs).
>
> I didn't test this and don't know whether it has any adversary effect,
> so you may have to play around with it ;-)
>
> martin

(It should read "buffer" instead of "new-buffer".)

This is exactly the solution I looked for. And more than that, it fully
respects the setting in switch-to-visible-buffer. Perfect!

In the tests I performed up to now I could not find any adversary effects. If
there are some, they are well hidden and will hardly be traced back to this
modification. :-)

Thank you very much for that.

Juergen