From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Matt Price'" <matt.price@utoronto.ca>, <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: check to see if a buffer with a certain name exists?
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:45:50 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <000001c945af$493a4a40$c2b22382@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1226590775.8767.2137.camel@localhost>
> i want to be able to check if there's a buffer
> open named *Mutt* . what's the best way to do this? in python, for
> instance, i would just say:
> if "*Mutt*" in buffer-list : return true else : return false
> in lisp i'm not seeing a quick way to test for something like this.
C-h f get-buffer
(get-buffer "*Mutt*")
The Elisp manual is your friend. In the manual, `i buffer RET' takes you to the
Buffers chapter. Buffer Names in the menu there shows you this:
Function: get-buffer buffer-or-name
This function returns the buffer specified by BUFFER-OR-NAME. If
BUFFER-OR-NAME is a string and there is no buffer with that name,
the value is `nil'. If BUFFER-OR-NAME is a buffer, it is returned
as given; that is not very useful, so the argument is usually a
name. For example:
(setq b (get-buffer "lewis"))
=> #<buffer lewis>
(get-buffer b)
=> #<buffer lewis>
(get-buffer "Frazzle-nots")
=> nil
See also the function `get-buffer-create' in *note Creating
Buffers::.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-13 16:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-13 15:39 check to see if a buffer with a certain name exists? Matt Price
2008-11-13 16:45 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2008-11-14 15:35 ` Matt Price
2008-11-13 19:50 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
2008-11-13 21:03 ` Ian Eure
2008-11-14 15:38 ` Matt Price
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