popup-switcher provides (yet another) convenient way to switch buffers, 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
  • Functions/methods navigation
  • Maximum number of visible items
  • Menu position
  • Fuzzy matching
  • Modified buffers marker
• Usage
• Screenshots
• Requirements
• License

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)

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)

Uses imenu to navigate through functions/methods names via psw-switch-function.

(global-set-key [f3] 'psw-switch-function)

Set maximum number of visible items in popup menus

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

Menu opens centered with respect to fill-column by default. Set psw-popup-position variable to change horizontal positioning.

Possible values are:

• fill-column - center relative to fill-column (default setting)
• center - center relative to window borders
• point - open popup at point

(setq psw-popup-position 'center)

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)

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.

(setq psw-enable-single-dot-to-navigate-files t)

Any time you run psw-navigate-files fn you can select dot . item, which opens dired-mode for current directory.

If you want to highlight previous buffer for psw-switch-buffer fn set psw-highlight-previous-buffer to t:

(setq psw-highlight-previous-buffer t)

List of interactive functions:

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.

Switch buffer (psw-switch-buffer)

Switch function (psw-switch-function)

Fuzzy matching for switch function

File navigator (psw-navigate-files)

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

Copyright © 2013-2020 Kostafey kostafey@gmail.com and contributors

Distributed under the General Public License 2.0+