Cycle through a list of buffers in Emacs

Question

I want to have something like this:

• A list of buffer is display
• As I select a buffer in the list, it's content is display immediately.
• The list can be in minibuffer (preferred) or in a separate window

Is there a plug in for this?

Answer 1

Finally found what I wanted (although a bit differed from what I wanted, but it got the essential feature right): https://github.com/martinp26/cycbuf

It automatically display buffers with a list of buffer as the cursor move at a buffer name. Customize variable cycbuf-clear-delay to adjust the time the buffer list is toggled; after exceeding the delay, the buffer list is automatically turned off and the buffer is picked.

Answer 2

^x^b displays a list of buffers, then you can click on one. Is that what you want?

Answer 3

There are several alternatives. For discussion on these, see for example http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ControlTABbufferCycling

Answer 4

There's many options. Some are:

• to display a list of buffers: ibuffer is an option http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/IbufferMode
• to have the list in the minibuffer: ido-switch-buffer http://wikemacs.org/index.php/Ido#Virtual_Buffers or you can use helm's interface http://wikemacs.org/index.php/Helm

Answer 5

The EmacsWiki pages cited in the other answers (so far) are a subset of the wiki's main page for this topic, which is where you should start .

(That wiki page is also a good place for other answers, which do not cite EmacsWiki, to update. ;-) )