From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Oliver Scholz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: `buffer-list' and the frame-parameter `buffer-predicate' Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 20:26:50 +0200 Organization: Olymp Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200208170450.g7H4owO08637@wijiji.santafe.edu> <200208180631.g7I6VWc08974@wijiji.santafe.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1029691122 28870 127.0.0.1 (18 Aug 2002 17:18:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 17:18:42 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17gThI-0007VQ-00 for ; Sun, 18 Aug 2002 19:18:40 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17gU8K-0001N3-00 for ; Sun, 18 Aug 2002 19:46:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17gTiL-0002Mu-00; Sun, 18 Aug 2002 13:19:45 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17gTgu-0002Kr-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Aug 2002 13:18:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17gTgs-0002KW-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Aug 2002 13:18:15 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17gTgs-0002KJ-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Aug 2002 13:18:14 -0400 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17gTfk-0006v5-00 for ; Sun, 18 Aug 2002 19:17:04 +0200 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17gTfk-0006uj-00 for ; Sun, 18 Aug 2002 19:17:04 +0200 Original-Path: hermes!nobody Original-Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Original-Lines: 27 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: dialin-145-254-199-105.arcor-ip.net Original-X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1029691024 26522 145.254.199.105 (18 Aug 2002 17:17:04 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 17:17:04 +0000 (UTC) X-Operating-System: Linux from Scratch X-Attribution: os X-Face: "HgH2sgK|bfH$;PiOJI6|qUCf.ve<51_Od(%ynHr?=>znn#~#oS>",F%B8&\vus),2AsPYb -n>PgddtGEn}s7kH?7kH{P_~vu?]OvVN^qD(L)>G^gDCl(U9n{:d>'DkilN!_K"eNzjrtI4Ya6;Td% IZGMbJ{lawG+'J>QXPZD&TwWU@^~A}f^zAb[Ru;CT(UA]c& User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:bXuRyAobzGA44HanHWrnySOjKCU= Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:6622 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:6622 Richard Stallman writes: [...] > Now I understand. The idea of limiting which buffers you can switch > to is not the issue, I think. What you want to do is limit that > buffers are included in lists that are shown or offered to you. Basically, yes. I think the behaviour of `bury-buffer', for example, does matter, too. But basically that's it. Sorry, if I explained it in an unclear way. [...] > As for making this a feature in Emacs, the question is whether people > can develop simple and easy-to-use ways of specifying which buffers > to list for each frame. I think that is the crucial issue. > If those methods are simple and don't require users to remember a lot, > they could be widely used. Otherwise they won't be used much, so it > is not worth the trouble of adding them. I see. I guess, it is up to me to invent something clever then, if I can. -- Oliver -- 1 Fructidor an 210 de la Révolution Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité!