From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: get-live-buffer primitive Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 16:45:41 -0400 Message-ID: References: <505190CB.5010809@yandex.ru> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1347569150 1707 80.91.229.3 (13 Sep 2012 20:45:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 20:45:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rudalics@gmx.at, dmantipov@yandex.ru, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 13 22:45:54 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TCGIL-0006Nv-EB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Sep 2012 22:45:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48689 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TCGIH-0003sR-Jv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Sep 2012 16:45:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:51937) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TCGIE-0003rx-CC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Sep 2012 16:45:47 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TCGID-0008WB-5c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Sep 2012 16:45:46 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:49971) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TCGID-0008W5-0H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Sep 2012 16:45:45 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TCGI9-00039W-OA; Thu, 13 Sep 2012 16:45:41 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Thu, 13 Sep 2012 09:42:46 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 208.118.235.10 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:153289 Archived-At: > `get-buffer' should never return a dead buffer. (Dead buffers > are removed from Vbuffer_alist.) It does, if passed a dead buffer. Maybe we should change that. That surprised me, but I guess it is true. Maybe it should not be changed. Meanwhile, `get-buffer' will not find a dead buffer by name. So I don't see a need to create a `get-live-buffer' function. Unless the purpose were only to get an error if the argument is a dead buffer. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call