From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: martin rudalics Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: threads and kill-buffer Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2012 11:52:11 +0200 Message-ID: <5049C3CB.5090604@gmx.at> References: <87a9x55xvd.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <5046D668.4010105@yandex.ru> <50471EEB.9030405@gmx.at> <837gs8e8n7.fsf@gnu.org> <50484E88.4080804@gmx.at> <83lignd1o8.fsf@gnu.org> <5048B623.9050802@gmx.at> <83ehmfciag.fsf@gnu.org> <5048C98A.4070303@gmx.at> <5048DF46.9000003@gmx.at> <838vcnc8q1.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1347011523 14028 80.91.229.3 (7 Sep 2012 09:52:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 09:52:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: tromey@redhat.com, dmantipov@yandex.ru, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 07 11:52:05 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1T9vEK-0001W9-6p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2012 11:52:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40239 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T9vEH-0002Bq-5Y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2012 05:52:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:57211) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T9vEA-0002BL-Db for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2012 05:51:59 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T9vE8-0000GP-4z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2012 05:51:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([213.165.64.23]:50564) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T9vE7-0000GD-QM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2012 05:51:52 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 07 Sep 2012 09:51:50 -0000 Original-Received: from 62-47-56-101.adsl.highway.telekom.at (EHLO [62.47.56.101]) [62.47.56.101] by mail.gmx.net (mp031) with SMTP; 07 Sep 2012 11:51:50 +0200 X-Authenticated: #14592706 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/DEtxcjS/DJoGWHTTWFan8W1moaSIYanHncnZCo8 KPwmU2GfQLFAfh In-Reply-To: <838vcnc8q1.fsf@gnu.org> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 213.165.64.23 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:153139 Archived-At: > And if you are going to ask next about buffer B's backtrace buffer, I > guess we will have to arrange for it to be called *Backtrace*<2> in > this case. And that would break the old `debug' code and any code that relies on hard-coded buffer names. String constants like *Backtrace* or *Help* are part of the global Emacs state. Changing that might be profitable but is certainly more tedious than implementing threads in the first place. martin