From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Kangas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#66890: 29.1; buffer-size should also accept the buffer's name as string argument Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2023 12:38:26 -0700 Message-ID: References: <8734xp77vl.fsf@posteo.de> <83edh88y2h.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="36795"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 66890@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii , Daniel Nagy Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 02 20:39:55 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 1qydXm-0009HM-65 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 02 Nov 2023 20:39:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qydXO-0006tG-08; 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Thu, 02 Nov 2023 12:38:27 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from 753933720722 named unknown by gmailapi.google.com with HTTPREST; Thu, 2 Nov 2023 12:38:26 -0700 In-Reply-To: <83edh88y2h.fsf@gnu.org> 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:273671 Archived-At: tags 66890 + moreinfo thanks Eli Zaretskii writes: > 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? I'd lean towards not making the proposed change, as it stands. Perhaps, for the sake of consistency, we should allow buffer names in either none or all buffer-related functions. But the only example given so far is `get-buffer', and I don't really see how we could possibly disallow using strings there. Thus, it's not very convincing. If anyone is interested in making a better case for this change, a single example is not enough. I'd suggest starting with a review of what we have now, for example something like `M-x apropos-function RET ^buffer- RET'. Without such a review, I don't really see that we have grounds for making any changes here. So I'm tagging this bug "moreinfo".