Re: Buffer attributes?

["Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com>]

Doug Lewan <dougl@shubertticketing.com> writes:

> Is there a general idea of attributes of a buffer in emacs? A common
> facility, like stat(2) for files, would be nice.

There are buffer local variables.  They're the dynamic attributes of the
buffer objects.


> The attribute I'm most interested in at the moment is the buffer's
> creation time, but I can't find such a thing.

You can write a meat function to add to the buffer-list-update-hook,
that will save the current time to the buffer-creation-time buffer local
variable.

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