helm

In emacs, I use helm[1][2] and BufferSelection (aka "bs")[3] to do the same thing, only helm is much more powerful and does a ton more than just that. In vim, I use MRU.[4] But neither emacs or vim are limited to buffer selection using this relatively primitive method (which I do like and use myself). You can select buffers using an almost overwhelming number of methods and plugins. You can filter, use regular expressions, use timing, use fuzzy matching, by buffer contents, color buffers in buffer lists using various criteria, etc. Here are some options for emacs: [5][6] Both vim and emacs can bind pretty much anything to any key, so you can use Cmd-t for any of those (or a function key, if you preferred something that requires only a single keypress) or virtually any other keystroke. [1] - http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Helm [2] - htt

You could mention in which ways you tried it, because helm (https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm ) does all the things you mention as far as i know.

I use Smex + ido-vertical-mode which looks like this: http://klibert.pl/ido-vertical.png. It's closer to how the "command palette" looks like than the normal ido. It doesn't display keybindings next to commands like Sublime does, but if you have `suggest-key-bindings` set, Emacs will show you command binding when you execute it: http://klibert.pl/suggest-key-binding.png Helm (https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm) is another way of doing this, although I don't use it (yet - I'm going to check it out sooner or later). The "command palette" (M-x or <esc>: in Emacs/Vim respectively) is a very useful tool for both exploring and working with the editor. It's kind of sad that people forgot about it for a few decades and only rediscovered it recently thanks to Sublime and similar.