popup-switcher

popup-switcher provides (yet another) convenient way to switch buffers, optional navigation possibility through functions/methods and any other kind of switching you like. It's easy to use and extend for custom purposes. It uses popup lib for better sense.

• Installation
• Configuration
  • Keybindings
  • Maximum number of visible items
  • Menu position
  • Fuzzy matching
  • Modified buffers marker
  • Functions/methods navigation
• Usage
• Requirements
• License

Installation

Add MELPA (if not yet) to your package-archives list:

(require 'package)
(add-to-list 'package-archives
             '("melpa" . "http://melpa.milkbox.net/packages/"))
(package-initialize)

Then you can install popup-switcher with the following command:

M-x package-install [RET] popup-switcher [RET]

Load popup-switcher:

(require 'popup-switcher)

Configuration

Keybindings

Add a hotkey to psw-switch-<X> to you taste (for the full list of predefined switching functions see Usage section), e.g.:

(global-set-key [f2] 'psw-switch-buffer)

Maximum number of visible items

Set maximum number of visible items in popup menus

(setq psw-popup-menu-max-length 15)

Menu position

Non-nil psw-in-window-center means horizontal locate popup menu in the window center. Locate popup menu in the fill-column center otherwise (by default).

(setq psw-in-window-center t)

Fuzzy matching

Non-nil psw-use-flx enables flx fuzzy matching engine for isearch in popup menus. flx-ido is required in this case, it can be installed by your favorite approach. E.g. by MEPLA: M-x package-install [RET] flx-ido [RET]

(setq psw-use-flx t)

Modified buffers marker

Non-nil psw-mark-modified-buffers means mark modified buffers with star char (*) expect special beffers like *Messages* any time you call psw-switch-buffer.

Functions/methods navigation

To navigate through functions/methods names you should add the most recent CEDET and load eassist lib. This feature is optional, and popup-switcher can operate without CEDET (and therefore without navigation possibility through functions/methods).

;; Activate semantic
(semantic-mode 1)

;; Load contrib library
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/cedet/contrib/")
(require 'eassist)

(eval-after-load "eassist"
  '(global-set-key [f3] 'psw-switch-function))

Usage

List of interactive functions:

Command	Description
psw-switch-buffer	switch buffers through popup menu
psw-switch-recentf	switch recent files
psw-navigate-files	simple file navigator
psw-switch-function	switch (navigate) through functions in the current buffer (optional)
psw-switch-projectile-files	switch among projectile project files list (optional)

Run M-x psw-switch-buffer [RET] (or your selected key). Type some letters from the name of buffer of interest (since isearch is enabled on start) to filter buffers list, use arrow keys and [RET] or mouse to select buffer.

When you are in menu created by psw-switch-buffer, you can kill selected buffer by pressing C-d or C-k.

Requirements:

• GNU Emacs 24.
• popup.
• CEDET (optional).
• projectile (optional).
• flx-ido (optional).

License

Copyright © 2013-2015 Kostafey kostafey@gmail.com and contributors

Distributed under the General Public License 2.0+