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    <p>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 files, I can "C-x b RET" between them and I do fine. However, whenever I need to be working on more than two files at a time, I tend to get lost. </p> <p>Here are some of the problems that I'd like to work on:</p> <ol> <li><p>I forget what some of my buffers are called, but I don't understand why C-x C-b splits my window into two buffers and exits the mini buffer. Sure I can switch buffers and choose a buffer to visit, but this feels unintuitive, and leaves me with two buffers open.</p></li> <li><p>When I visit a directory rather than a file, I have a convenient list of all of the files and directories. I usually want to do one of two things with this: 1) Open a single file and never see this buffer again OR 2) Open a bunch of files and never see this buffer again. I don't really know how to do this, as moving the point to a file and hitting return doesn't do either of these things.</p></li> <li><p>I know that my buffers aren't like tabs, but I have an inclination to want to scroll through them to find what I want. I don't know of any key-bindings for this, but I'd like it to be M-n / M-p or the like. Then again, this may be a horribly inefficient way to switch buffers.</p></li> <li><p>When I open interactive help of any kind (for example in ESS), I have a habit of switching back to the buffer I was working in and using C-x 1 to get back to a single buffer. When I do this, however, the help buffer hangs around in my buffer list, further confusing me. I know I can switch to that buffer, kill it, switch back, and then go back to a single buffer, but this seems wrong.</p></li> </ol> <p>The way I've dealt with this so far involves using a tiling window manager and a few emacs windows in different work-spaces, rather than actually learn the best way to manage a number of files in emacs. I don't necessarily want to change emacs to better fit my needs (although I am open to that if it fits in with what I'm about to say), instead, I'd like to grok the thought process behind handling files/buffers the way that emacs does, and how I can be more efficient with it.</p> <p>Any answer that would help me understand the correct way, or a more efficient way to manage my buffers or files would be greatly appreciated.</p>
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    1. CO2. http://xahlee.org/emacs/file_management.html see the last question
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    2. COI didn't know about marking files in dired. It seemed useful at first, but then I couldn't figure out how to open all of my marked files at once. Anyone know how to do this?
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    3. COIt's a slightly odd omission from the default abilities, that one. You can use `C-o` to open the file for just the current line in another window, and remain in the dired window afterwards, which in combination with `C-n` and `C-p` to move up and down enables you to open several files in succession pretty rapidly (although this does bury all but the most recently-opened buffer, which probably isn't ideal). For a better answer, look here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1110118/in-emacs-dired-how-to-find-visit-multiple-files
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