Efficiently managing buffers will become more important as we learn new ways to open a lot of them. We'll look at one enhancement for switching between buffers (ido-mode), a trick for dealing with multiple buffers with the same name, and some other tips. With these mastered, you should be able to work with hundreds of open buffers (something that would be unthinkable with a tabbed interface).
Commands introduced:
C-x C-b
M-x clean-buffer-list
M-x ido-mode
M-x occur
M-x multi-occur-in-matching-buffers
Extensions introduced:
ido-mode
uniquify
Customizations introduced:
Ido Mode
Ido Enable Flex Matching
Uniquify Buffer Name Style
All episodes: • .Emacs Tutorials
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