How do emacs users usually have multiple files open at once.

• centaur-tabs

  15 720 6.4 Emacs Lisp

  Emacs plugin aiming to become an aesthetic, modern looking tabs plugin

Centaur tabs is nice for me after a few months of using it (https://github.com/ema2159/centaur-tabs). For my first 10 years using Emacs I just used split windows and C-x b.

• frog-jump-buffer

  1 151 0.0 Emacs Lisp

  The fastest buffer-jumping Emacs lisp package around

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• ivy-ghq

  2 9 0.0 Emacs Lisp

  Navigate to ghq managed git repos quickly using ivy Emacs package

To switch or open new projects I use ivy-ghq which relies on the repository management tool ghq.

• emacs-find-file-rg

  2 14 2.2 Emacs Lisp

  Find file in current project using rg --files command

So what other people have mentioned, I mostly use recentf or a project based search via find-file-rg used via the selectrum interface. Then I use winner-mode to switch between previous open buffers. This covers in my case most of the use cases.

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