Emacs - automatically place cursor in buffer selection window

Question

When I pull up the buffer selection window in emacs, Ctrl-X Ctrl-B, I then have to Ctrl-X o to put the cursor in the new buffer.

Is there to make the cursor automatically active in the new buffer window after Ctrl-X Ctrl-B?

Answer 1

You might want to set C-x C-b to run buffer-menu, buffer-menu-other-window or electric-buffer-menu instead (put e.g. (global-set-key "\C-x\C-b" 'electric-buffer-menu) in your .emacs).

There are many alternative packages for buffer switching. As this is a rather personal choice, I'll just point you to the wiki page.