Re: strange generate-new-buffer-name behaviour

[Ken Raeburn <raeburn@raeburn.org>]

On Dec 11, 2010, at 14:26, Alin Soare wrote:
> I discovered an error while reading the info page for generating a name for an unexisting buffer :
> 
> In 27.3 Buffer Names I see written so:
> 
>           (generate-new-buffer-name "foo")
>                => "foo<5>"
>           (generate-new-buffer-name "foo" "foo<3>")
>                => "foo<3>"
>           (generate-new-buffer-name "foo" "foo<6>")
>                => "foo<5>"
> 
> However, for me all these forms evaluate to "foo"

This might be obvious, but: Do you actually have existing buffers named "foo", "foo<2>", "foo<3>", and "foo<4>" as described in the paragraph before that example code?

Ken