I usually type M-x buffer-menu to switch buffers in Emacs. How can I do this with a shorter command? Its quite a long string to type.
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I usually type M-x buffer-menu to switch buffers in Emacs. How can I do
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I usually type M-x buffer-menu to switch buffers in Emacs. How can I do this with a shorter command? Its quite a long string to type.
Thanks!
You can use
C-x bto change buffers. You have to enter the first few letters of the buffer name, and of course you can use completion. If you pressTAB(the most useful key in Emacs), a list of (matching) buffers appears. You can click in this list to switch to a buffer.You can bind
buffer-menuto a key. Pick a key that’s not used for another command — let’s sayf12— and add the following line to the file~/.emacs:There are many other interfaces to changing buffers in Emacs, and they can be significantly more efficient than
C-x bandC-x C-b. Since this tends to be a very personal choice, I recommend you experiment with a few and keep the one(s) you feel most comfortable with.