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windows 10, emacs 26.1

Suppose I open 10 buffers. If I can use prev-buffer (C-x left) / next-buffer (C-x right) to go to prev/next buffers. It's very comfortable.

But I need when I do this to skip some buffers. E.g. buffers whose names start with helm-xxx.

Is it possible?

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  • Sure, write a custom command taking this in account.
    – wasamasa
    Sep 12, 2018 at 17:18
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    Skipping some buffers is a classic
    – Nsukami _
    Sep 12, 2018 at 20:19

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You can control which buffers next-buffer will consider with the buffer-predicate frame parameter. An example which filters out all buffers that match "helm":

(defun my-buffer-predicate (buffer)
  (if (string-match "helm" (buffer-name buffer))
      nil
    t))
(set-frame-parameter nil 'buffer-predicate 'my-buffer-predicate)
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