Excerpts from William Morgan's message of Thu Apr 09 19:30:09 +0200 2009:
> Reformatted excerpts from William Morgan's message of 2009-04-08:
> > One easy thing to comes to mind would be to have buffer-list-mode
> > (which is what you get when you hit B) sort the buffer list by last
> > access.  Remap that to something like ";" and you have one-handed
> > buffer- switching with minimal keystrokes.
> 
> Ok, I've done this on branch 'better-buffer-list', which I've merged
> into next. Pull and see how you guys like it. Summary:
> 
> 1. 'b' rolls the buffer forward as usual.
> 2. 'B' now rolls the buffer backwards like in the olden days.
> 3. ';' pulls up the buffer list, which is now sorted by access time,
>    colorized to show "system" vs non-"system" buffers, and has little
>    stars for buffers with unsaved content.
> 4. '+' is now the apply-to-tagged command.
> 
> Sorry for changing so many keymappings, but I really wanted ';' so that,
> with 'j' and 'k', you can swap buffers really quickly with just one
> hand. Since that freed up B, I figured I'd reenable the old behavior,
> and '+' kinda makes sense for apply-to-tagged anyways.
> 
> Nicolas, I had to revert your "Buffer switching, 'bn' for the next one
> and 'bp' for the previous" change in next. I hope you're not offended! :)

I'm not offended, I just wanted to tend to more scalable bindings, where
a meaningful letter is kept to be the leading one for more advanced bindings
on a particular topic.

Moreover optimizing bindings for QUERTY keymap does not make sense for other
people... Personally I use and prefer DVORAK.

-- 
Nicolas Pouillard
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