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From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: make-indirect-buffer
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 17:04:27 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040412210427.GA12000@fencepost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m17jwkrk0h.fsf-monnier+emacs@empanada.iro.umontreal.ca>

On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 05:01:09PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> The basic idea looks fine, but the above code calls Fget_buffer twice for
> no reason.  It seems the following code would work as well:
> 
>    base_buffer = Fget_buffer (base_buffer);
>    if (NILP (base_buffer))
>      /* We assume that (get-buffer foo)==nil implies STRINGP (foo).
>         Is that true?  --Stef  */
>      error ("No such buffer: `%s'", SDATA (base_buffer));

The error message is different -- you're treating NIL as a string...

It seems to avoid calling Fget_buffer twice, you'd have to save the previous
value of base_buffer and use it in the error message.

-Miles
-- 
Occam's razor split hairs so well, I bought the whole argument!

  reply	other threads:[~2004-04-12 21:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-12  5:19 make-indirect-buffer Luc Teirlinck
2004-04-12 21:01 ` make-indirect-buffer Stefan Monnier
2004-04-12 21:04   ` Miles Bader [this message]
2004-04-12 21:12     ` make-indirect-buffer Luc Teirlinck
2004-04-12 21:22     ` make-indirect-buffer Luc Teirlinck
2004-04-12 21:35       ` make-indirect-buffer Luc Teirlinck
2004-04-12 21:37         ` make-indirect-buffer Luc Teirlinck
2004-04-12 22:53       ` make-indirect-buffer Stefan Monnier
2004-04-12 23:36         ` make-indirect-buffer Luc Teirlinck
2004-04-12 21:27   ` make-indirect-buffer Luc Teirlinck
2004-04-12 21:49 ` make-indirect-buffer Kim F. Storm
2004-04-13 17:45 ` make-indirect-buffer Richard Stallman
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-04-12  4:58 make-indirect-buffer Luc Teirlinck
2004-04-13 17:45 ` make-indirect-buffer Richard Stallman
2004-03-13 23:23 make-indirect-buffer Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-15  4:56 ` make-indirect-buffer Richard Stallman
2004-03-15 22:37   ` make-indirect-buffer Luc Teirlinck

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