From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Clément Pit--Claudel" <clement.pit@gmail.com>
Cc: 24962@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24962: 26.0.50; list-buffers doesn't show buffers w/ name " "... visiting a file
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 19:09:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <831sy8d89z.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5b913ac1-94ef-c0c1-765a-f39bed313840@gmail.com> (message from Clément Pit--Claudel on Fri, 18 Nov 2016 11:48:07 -0500)
> From: Clément Pit--Claudel <clement.pit@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 11:48:07 -0500
>
> >> >From the Emacs manual:
> >> doc/lispref/buffers.texi (Buffer Names):
> >> Buffers that are ephemeral and generally uninteresting to the user
> >> have names starting with a space, so that the @code{list-buffers} and
> >> @code{buffer-menu} commands don't mention them (but if such a buffer
> >> visits a file, it @strong{is} mentioned).
> >
> > Thank. Please add a test for this to the test suite.
>
> Could we fix the manual instead? Or do we have evidence that all modes that use temporary buffers visiting files set buffer-file-name to nil to prevent these buffers from being listed?
I'm not sure what use case you have in mind. Usually, temporary
buffers don't visit files, those files are inserted into temporary
buffers without affecting buffer-file-name. But maybe you are talking
about some scenario I'm missing.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-18 17:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-18 11:15 bug#24962: 26.0.50; list-buffers doesn't show buffers w/ name " "... visiting a file Tino Calancha
2016-11-18 12:41 ` Tino Calancha
2016-11-18 14:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-18 16:48 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-11-18 17:09 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-11-30 3:22 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-11-30 2:59 ` Tino Calancha
2016-12-08 4:54 ` Tino Calancha
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