From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim Johnson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Visiting buffers programmatically Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2021 13:17:03 -0800 Message-ID: <5fc2e0a6-470e-0ebc-fe81-9eea2dd7fa5f@akwebsoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="17415"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.8.1 To: MLEmacs Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 10 23:17:44 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-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 1lrS3b-0004IY-4C for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 10 Jun 2021 23:17:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34296 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lrS3a-0005hH-5a for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 10 Jun 2021 17:17:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:38276) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lrS3D-0005h8-QK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jun 2021 17:17:19 -0400 Original-Received: from gateway34.websitewelcome.com ([192.185.149.101]:27978) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lrS3C-0005nR-5k for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jun 2021 17:17:19 -0400 Original-Received: from cm13.websitewelcome.com (cm13.websitewelcome.com [100.42.49.6]) by gateway34.websitewelcome.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE0EBD0331 for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2021 16:17:05 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from host2075.hostmonster.com ([67.20.113.97]) by cmsmtp with SMTP id rS2zlgDczhbxprS2zlRxC7; Thu, 10 Jun 2021 16:17:05 -0500 X-Authority-Reason: nr=8 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=tj49.com; s=default; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:MIME-Version:Date: Message-ID:Subject:From:To:Sender:Reply-To:Cc:Content-ID:Content-Description: Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID: In-Reply-To:References:List-Id:List-Help:List-Unsubscribe:List-Subscribe: List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=xLaPs0bKxDVWdolwYaGiewotCSPIWJpABRZksVDSqhE=; b=XaLPpQtcK5VpcXib8B1YzZ1u7M wBirNNhYPlCEuwlnVHYubZAkhIgnPnz5lAp7JwG7cZL4TJnNLdFE3aQqIhOrB1IQFv7oSFeFTb3Sa P6zIvStWm/gW8LW8Z/MYi8aTh; Original-Received: from tjohnson.mtaonline.net ([64.4.232.191]:51024 helo=[192.168.1.2]) by host2075.hostmonster.com with esmtpsa (TLS1.2) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1lrS2z-003U1j-AX for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jun 2021 15:17:05 -0600 Content-Language: en-US X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - host2075.hostmonster.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gnu.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - akwebsoft.com X-BWhitelist: no X-Source-IP: 64.4.232.191 X-Source-L: No X-Exim-ID: 1lrS2z-003U1j-AX X-Source-Sender: tjohnson.mtaonline.net ([192.168.1.2]) [64.4.232.191]:51024 X-Source-Auth: tim@tj49.com X-Email-Count: 1 X-Source-Cap: bW9sZG92YXM7bW9sZG92YXM7aG9zdDIwNzUuaG9zdG1vbnN0ZXIuY29t X-Local-Domain: yes Received-SPF: neutral client-ip=192.185.149.101; envelope-from=tim@akwebsoft.com; helo=gateway34.websitewelcome.com X-Spam_score_int: -10 X-Spam_score: -1.1 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=0.001, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_NEUTRAL=0.779 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:130728 Archived-At: GNU Emacs 27.2 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.20, cairo version 1.16.0)  of 2021-06-04 ubuntu 20.04 I would like to write three simple elisp routines that would each visit one of: *scratch*, *messages* and *shell* For *messages* I would only be reading or copying text. For *scratch* and *shell* I would be modifying those buffers. which elisp function is best for each of these buffers? Would it be switch-to-buffer, display-buffer, set-buffer or something else.? Thanks -- Tim tj49.com