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From: James Thomas <jimjoe@gmx.net>
To: Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: buffer list sequence
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2023 14:37:43 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zfzjibkw.fsf@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJcAo8tOzekGEmr+yrwH3Cqo5mpLVJeTn2FRH69t0=BRmJ2jCQ@mail.gmail.com> (Samuel Wales's message of "Fri, 10 Nov 2023 16:17:53 -0700")

Samuel Wales wrote:

> apropos of nothing, in old code [i am less capable of coding now]
> sometimes i do (switch-to-buffer (current-buffer)) which sometimes
> fixes buffer liust problems.  i do not know why as it looks like it
> should be a no-op but i ahve no idea.

One reason I can think of for that is if a `switch-to-buffer' somewhere
used the NORECORD option. Your code would undo that.

You should also read (info "(elisp) Buffer List")

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      reply	other threads:[~2023-11-12  9:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-11-05  3:30 buffer list sequence Samuel Wales
2023-11-10 13:34 ` James Thomas
2023-11-10 23:17   ` Samuel Wales
2023-11-12  9:07     ` James Thomas [this message]

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