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Re: many *Man ... buffers frustrating
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: many *Man ... buffers frustrating |
Date: |
Thu, 15 Feb 2001 19:02:30 +0200 |
> From: Dan Jacobson <jidanni@kimo.FiXcomTHiS.tw>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
> Date: 15 Feb 2001 20:20:09 +0800
>
> I don't have a suggestion for a better way, but I would just like to
> comment that after on has several man pages loaded into emacs, one
> looks with dread upon the task of switching amongst them, each time
> taking at least a C-x b * M a n SPC due to similarly starting buffer names:
> % *Man sitecopy* 24918 Man
> % *Man slocate* 2689 Man
>
> Another route is "ESC x m a n RET" ("If a buffer already exists for
> this man page, it will display immediately.")
>
> [Indeed, one character shorter than the C-x b invocation! [And
> one-stop shopping, just remember one command] but no buffer
> name completion.]
"C-x b" has its own history. Pressing the Up or Down arrow, or M-p
and M-n, at the "C-x b"s prompt should let you step through all the
buffers you selected previously.
If that is not good enough, you might wish trying the iswitchb.el
package.