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# Previous Buffer

I often find myself needing to jump back and forth between two buffers. For instance, if I am iterating on a test and the implementation, there is a lot of switching from one to the other and then back again.

This quickest way to do this is to use the command for going to the previous buffer. The default binding for that is `ctrl-^`.

With that binding, it is fast and easy to toggle between two buffers.

[source](http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/editing.html#CTRL-^)