From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs 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 Message-ID: <83edh88y2h.fsf@gnu.org> References: <8734xp77vl.fsf@posteo.de> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="33809"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 66890@debbugs.gnu.org To: Daniel Nagy , Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 02 07:33:43 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qyRGw-0008Wi-MO for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 02 Nov 2023 07:33:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qyRGm-00017s-Eo; Thu, 02 Nov 2023 02:33:32 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qyRGi-00015o-1G for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Nov 2023 02:33:29 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:5::43]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qyRGh-0002XG-PH for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Nov 2023 02:33:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1qyRHG-0004Gz-Gg for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Nov 2023 02:34:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2023 06:34:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 66890 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 66890-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B66890.169890681716385 (code B ref 66890); Thu, 02 Nov 2023 06:34:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 66890) by debbugs.gnu.org; 2 Nov 2023 06:33:37 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53753 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1qyRGn-0004GA-FM for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 02 Nov 2023 02:33:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:54602) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1qyRGi-0004Fr-6O for 66890@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 02 Nov 2023 02:33:32 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qyRG2-0002Sa-Lm; Thu, 02 Nov 2023 02:32:47 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=AM3eeCHRWTR7v2ijQSTwEl5x4IGFw/Mwy906RPjXH1U=; b=K966LMuYO9rU SvQIMhO5PfqaVd+wibEQXuMoc0tojGj1tTMTJuJZweVttn8fP22+ML3jjhfYOxxVn50LV8Jv+dCPi 1NarFESewkdBg5F0GoUp/EU9L5GPORs9oenM+AeWN0QtAIoyn8lXaoHc+4PAbJQZbgk5ezSayP35X TCV9qW4XBp9HNO4Gy43JaEcmdx1UvyjbovdaEZtlmuT+3ffZ3TZhVB0Wfn1BEMe5XQkOE659e/ISN NVR3I/Bl4TkVeQ73JUQic8aJzkvDWUmfkSe/1lWoNFyjMYvHa7IDeNBkfbjgf48Hjk8m9ZG67aFpz PHm1GdlcRW8m6YUYhwNHvA==; In-Reply-To: <8734xp77vl.fsf@posteo.de> (message from Daniel Nagy on Wed, 01 Nov 2023 16:31:01 +0000) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:273636 Archived-At: > From: Daniel Nagy > 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?