bug#37514: PATCH: Add setting to allow switching to an already-visible buffer by default

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> writes:

>>>> 'switch-to-prev-buffer' and 'switch-to-next-buffer' are the canonical
>>>> commands for navigating a specific window's buffer list (here these
>>>> are bound to <M-left> and <M-right> because I don't care for word-like
>>>> movement).
>>>
>>> Hey, those are really useful commands that I didn't know about.
>>>
>>> Would it make sense to give them a default key binding?
>>
>> Maybe Juri has an idea ...
>
> Fortunately we already have several default key bindings for this:
>
> C-x <C-left>, C-x <left>, <XF86Back>
> C-x <C-right>, C-x <right>, <XF86Forward>

I tried `C-h w switch-to-prev-buffer RET', and I got

"switch-to-prev-buffer is not on any key"

Oh!  `previous-buffer' is just a small shim over
`switch-to-prev-buffer'.

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