Emacs: help me understand file/buffer management

Question

I\'ve been using emacs for all of my text editing needs for the past three years now. When I\'m in a single file, working on code or whatnot, I\'m fairly efficient. With two

Answer 1

As always, there are many ways to help you with this; it depends a bit on personal preference what works best, here are some links with explanations:

• ibuffer; which is an updated buffer menu (C-x C-b)
• ido, which let's you have more powerful autocompletion to switch through buffers. It's a kind-of 'better iswitchb'.

These two are enough for me; but you may also be interested in the tabbar-mode, which gives you rudimentary tabs (like firefox has them).