From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What happens with overlays when their buffer is killed? Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 18:05:32 +0300 Message-ID: <83k1tyg9mr.fsf@gnu.org> References: <877epz1eoo.fsf@mbork.pl> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1522076657 9891 195.159.176.226 (26 Mar 2018 15:04:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 15:04:17 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 26 17:04:13 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1f0TfN-0002Qu-NP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Mar 2018 17:04:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57244 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f0ThR-0001kF-1m for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Mar 2018 11:06:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53683) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f0Tgf-0001hw-8c for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Mar 2018 11:05:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f0TgZ-0008Qc-6m for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Mar 2018 11:05:27 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:45247) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f0TgZ-0008QW-3B for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Mar 2018 11:05:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2869 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1f0TgY-0006q2-FF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Mar 2018 11:05:22 -0400 In-reply-to: <877epz1eoo.fsf@mbork.pl> (message from Marcin Borkowski on Mon, 26 Mar 2018 09:25:27 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:116282 Archived-At: > From: Marcin Borkowski > Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 09:25:27 +0200 > > assume that I create a few overlays in some buffer, and then I kill that > buffer. What happens with the overlays? If they were not assigned to > a variable, do they get garbage collected? They will be GC'ed on the next opportunity when Emacs decides to GC.