I had been searching for a quicker way to switch between buffers.
Ctrl-X b Tab Down arrow etc. seemed slow and awkward.
... some time passes ...
Then I found the ide_next_buffer() function in ide.sl.
... a little more time and light hacking passes ...
So, now I can rapidly cycle back and forth through the buffer ring
by pressing Alt-. and Alt-, (Alt-period and Alt-comma, or is it
Meta-?). Here is the code I added to my .jedrc to do it:
%
% Switch to previous or next buffer.
% This code taken from ide_next_buffer() in ide.sl.
%
define next_buffer (previous)
{
variable n, buf;
n = buffer_list (); % get the buffers on the stack
if (previous)
{
_stk_reverse (n-1);
}
loop (n) {
buf = ();
n--;
% Skip *scratch* and other buffers that are not of interest.
if ((buf[0] == '*') or (buf[0] == ' '))
{
continue;
}
sw2buf (buf);
_pop_n (n);
return;
}
}
% Bind Alt-. and Alt-, (Meta-period and Meta-comma) to
next_buffer().
setkey ("next_buffer (0)", "\e,");
setkey ("next_buffer (1)", "\e.");
Most of you probably have something as good. But, for those who do
not, perhaps this can be helpful.
By the way, the "if ((buf[0] ..." statement skips some files. You
may want to consider modifying that.
Hope this can be helpful to some.
Dave