emacs: control tab buffer cycling, or stack buffer cycling, similar to alt-tab between windows

Question

I have consulted this resource: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/ControlTABbufferCycling, and tried buffer-stack.el, which is useful, but I find the user e

Answer 1

Try out this snippet:

(defun ctrltab ()
  "List buffers and give it focus"
  (interactive)
  (if (string= "*Buffer List*" (buffer-name))
      ;; Go to next line. Go to first line if end is reached.
      (progn
        (revert-buffer)
        (if (>= (line-number-at-pos)
                (count-lines (point-min) (point-max)))
            (goto-char (point-min))
          (forward-line)))
    (list-buffers)
    (switch-to-buffer "*Buffer List*")
    (delete-other-windows)
    (forward-line)))

(global-set-key [C-tab] 'ctrltab)

It's often inferior to ido-switch-buffer, but it does its job anyway.