From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Daniel Nagy <danielnagy@posteo.de>,
Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
Cc: 66890@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#66890: 29.1; buffer-size should also accept the buffer's name as string argument
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2023 08:32:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83edh88y2h.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8734xp77vl.fsf@posteo.de> (message from Daniel Nagy on Wed, 01 Nov 2023 16:31:01 +0000)
> From: Daniel Nagy <danielnagy@posteo.de>
> Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2023 16:31:01 +0000
>
> The current signature of #'buffer-size is:
>
> (buffer-size &optional BUFFER)
>
> It can only handle actual buffer objects as the argument. Could it be
> made to accept the buffer name as a string as well? So that it's
> signature would become:
>
> (buffer-size &optional BUFFER-OR-NAME)
>
> Other functions, like #'get-buffer already do this.
It's very easy to get the buffer from its name. You could do
(buffer-size (get-buffer BUFFER-OR-NAME))
So I wonder whether it is worth our while to convert more functions to
accept both buffers and names of buffers.
Stefan, WDYT?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-11-02 6:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-11-01 16:31 bug#66890: 29.1; buffer-size should also accept the buffer's name as string argument Daniel Nagy
2023-11-02 6:32 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-11-02 19:38 ` Stefan Kangas
2023-11-02 20:55 ` Daniel Nagy
2023-11-03 13:38 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-11-04 0:21 ` Stefan Kangas
2023-11-04 6:03 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-11-04 10:43 ` Stefan Kangas
2023-11-04 20:57 ` Daniel Nagy
2023-11-04 22:12 ` Drew Adams
2023-11-05 5:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-05 23:02 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
[not found] ` <87bkcbzy6c.fsf@posteo.de>
2023-11-03 6:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
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