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Subject: Re: Finding last *Async Shell Command* buffer?
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> Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2021 10:17:11 +0300
> From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> 
> > Did you try writing a simple function to put on
> > buffer-list-update-hook?  Then you can in that function define a
> > buffer-local variable whose value is a simple monotonically increasing
> > counter, or even the time when the buffer was created.  Then write a
> > command to sort buffers in the order determined by that variable.
> 
> I have tried using that function, but again, how do I get the last
> buffer?

By comparing the current buffer-list with the previous one?