At 11:32 AM 1/5/01 -0000, Nicky Shields wrote:
>I have just started using emacs so apologies if I'm asking an obvious
>question.
>
>Sometimes when I open Java files in emacs, the files are listed under the
>buffer menu item.  At other times I can only access the different files
>which are open by using the list all buffers command c-x c-b and then
>selecting the appropriate file.  I'm finding this awkward as it's tricky to
>get the buffers I want in the window I want.

A couple of suggestions:

- Use the speedbar (JDE->Speedbar).

- Press the left mouse button while holding down the shift key
  to display a cascading popup menu of all buffers. (This works on
  the Windows version of Emacs. I'm not sure about other versions.
  It does not work for XEmacs.)

- Paul

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