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

elscreen does a little bit what you seek: http://wikemacs.org/index.php/Elscreen
You have to create screens (tabs) on demand and you can call M-x elscreen-select-and-goto to select a screen from a list in the minibuffer.

Fortunately it is already coupled with helm: helm-elscreen. That gives a good looking and handy choice list:

• fuzzy matching
• scrollable list
• choose actions (press TAB and choose "Change screen/Delete/Only").

However, you still have to create a screen manually (but I like it because I can organize sort of work areas -it is possible to isolate buffers per screen. A tab per buffer would be way too much + emacs creates many internal buffers so they can get on the way).

helm: https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm/wiki

ps: helm-buffers-list is close to the interface you want for switching buffers, without tabs…