Question

In compilation, occur search, grep search, etc., Emacs will create a new buffer in a separate window to show the results, is there anyway to jump to that window automatically? It is useful because then I can use n and p instead of M-g n and M-g p to move to next and previous items; plus, the buffer can be quit quickly with q. Currently I manually switch to the new buffer every time I run those commands, which is just annoying. Thanks.

Answer 1

You can use advice.

For example to jump to the grep buffer use the following advice:

(defadvice compilation-start (after compilation-start-maximize activate)
  (when (equal mode 'grep-mode)
    (switch-to-buffer "*grep*")
    ;; you may want to maximize the buffer
    (delete-other-windows)))

For occur you can use the following advice

(defadvice occur-1 (after occur-maximize activate)
  (other-window 1))