From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Colin S. Miller" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: LISP Questions - random, random elements and memory management Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:40:48 +0000 Organization: SunSITE.dk - Supporting Open source Message-ID: <4b05830f$0$279$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1258656108 30167 80.91.229.12 (19 Nov 2009 18:41:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:41:48 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 19 19:41:41 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NBBwq-0008GZ-OP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:41:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49894 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NBBwq-0002dy-3L for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:41:40 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!feed118.news.tele.dk!dotsrc.org!filter.dotsrc.org!news.dotsrc.org!not-for-mail User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090706) Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.56.51.242 Original-X-Trace: news.sunsite.dk DXC=_c:TnH7XW72OPCTD3`iC24YSB=nbEKnk; T]PbJ^\L[d85fdD?L8VmB8OOn[7LY1L_5QScK68eBi57; QNS\SSPXn7=`B>8HMEID8BbE\ZcHPZ64CZ[OfSj^K9? Original-X-Complaints-To: staff@sunsite.dk Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:174863 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:69936 Archived-At: Jeff, Jeff Clough wrote: > From: Barry Margolin > Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:44:24 -0500 > >> How about putting it in a text file that you load into a temporary >> buffer when you need it? Then kill the buffer when you're done with it. > I was thinking about this. The only real issue is with figuring out a > good lifecycle for the buffer that wouldn't leave the user confused > ("Hey, where did this buffer come from?") If a buffer's name starts with a space, then it is hidden from the user unless they do C-x b SPC TAB or similar. HTH, Colin S. Miller -- Replace the obvious in my email address with the first three letters of the hostname to reply.