bug#58933: 28.2; project-buffers should take an optional filter

[Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>]

On 02.11.2022 16:17, Sean Devlin wrote:
> Hi Dmitry,
> 
>> On Nov 1, 2022, at 7:38 PM, Dmitry Gutov<dgutov@yandex.ru>  wrote:
>>
>> Hi Sean,
>>
>> On 01.11.2022 00:04, Sean Devlin wrote:
>>
>>> Project.el provides a function project-buffers that returns a list of
>>> buffers associated with the given project. The list is unfiltered,
>>> meaning any program using it will have to do some work to pick out the
>>> buffers of interest. It would be useful if the function had an optional
>>> argument to do this work.
>>> Project.el already has a function project--buffer-check that validates a
>>> buffer against a list of conditions. Maybe it should be wired into
>>> project-buffers to do the job of filtering?
>> There is also 'match-buffers' and 'buffer-match-p' in the core Emacs starting with Emacs 29 (should also be available with the 'compat' package).
>>
>> What do you think about these alternatives?
> Thanks for the pointer—I wasn’t aware of these functions. (I’m still on 28.2.)
> 
> It looks like these do fit the bill. For example, it looks like I could write:
> 
> (match-buffers condition (project-buffers project))
> 
> I can’t see these functions in my local installation of compat (056e3cc), but maybe definitions from Emacs 29 haven’t been added yet? In any case, I’m happy to wait a little bit.

Right, I'm not seeing it in there either. Perhaps it'll get there after 
Emacs 29 is released.

Philip, is that the plan?