From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Phillip Lord Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: invisible buffer is it possible? Date: 26 Nov 2002 12:41:58 +0000 Organization: BIOSCI/MRC Human Genome Mapping Project Resource Centre Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1038314895 22398 80.91.224.249 (26 Nov 2002 12:48:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 12:48:15 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18Gf8Q-0005p7-00 for ; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 13:48:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18Gf6f-0005A5-00; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 07:46:25 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!lnewspeer00.lnd.ops.eu.uu.net!emea.uu.net!server1.netnews.ja.net!hgmp.mrc.ac.uk!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 38 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: bromine.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Original-X-Trace: niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk 1038314519 838 193.62.192.35 (26 Nov 2002 12:41:59 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@net.bio.net Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 12:41:59 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2.92 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:107470 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:4021 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:4021 I'm just wondering whether I can create an invisible buffer, or something similar? That is one which does not appear in the buffer menu list, and you can't accidentally change to. The reason for this is that I have use this little hack.... (add-hook 'xml-mode-hook 'phil-psgml-hook) (defun phil-psgml-hook() "Does various checks and sets up various variables 1) Checks to see if the file being loaded is one which needs a fake DOCTYPE. That is I don't want to have the doctype in the buffer but want psgml mode to think that there is one. 2) Sets up default validate command" (interactive) (if (string= "build.xml" (file-name-nondirectory (buffer-file-name))) (setq sgml-parent-document '( "~/emacs/anthead.xml" "" "project" )))) What this does is allow me to use a DTD for editing ant build files, without having to put the doctype declaration into the build file itself, which goes into the anthead.xml file. However it results in the anthead.xml file being opened into a buffer, and it's just an annoyance. Is there someway that I can mark it invisible? Cheers Phil