I've worked that way as well, but lately I've found that I'm typing C-x b RET a whole lot to find my way to the buffer I want to view or edit. So I've ended up

I've worked that way as well, but lately I've found that I'm typing C-x b RET a whole lot to find my way to the buffer I want to view or edit. So I've ended up with multiple terminal windows: - emacs - mysql - console output - extra shell to fiddle in I'm well aware that could all be in one big emacs window, but not having to switch buffers is a worthwhile tradeoff.