From: Daniel Nagy <danielnagy@posteo.de>
To: 66890@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#66890: 29.1; buffer-size should also accept the buffer's name as string argument
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2023 20:55:55 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877cmzzxf5.fsf@posteo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkmnbX6X9T-cz4q_NFot1dZaxpPUY-0WN0r6ZCpMXqUyvXg@mail.gmail.com>
(resending only to debbugs.gnu.org because my previous mail had delivery
problems)
These are the additional functions/macros, that I found using `M-x
apropos-function', that accept both types of arguments:
`buffer-hash'
`buffer-match-p'
`buffer-text-pixel-size'
`bury-buffer'
`display-buffer'
`get-buffer-create'
`get-buffer-window'
`get-buffer-window-list'
`kill-buffer'
`pop-to-buffer'
`project-display-buffer'
`project-display-buffer-other-frame'
`project-switch-to-buffer'
`replace-buffer-in-windows'
`set-buffer'
`set-window-buffer'
`switch-to-buffer'
`switch-to-buffer-other-frame'
`switch-to-buffer-other-tab'
`switch-to-buffer-other-window'
`tab-bar-get-buffer-tab'
`temp-buffer-window-setup'
`window-normalize-buffer'
`window-normalize-buffer-to-switch-to'
`with-current-buffer'
`with-current-buffer-window'
`with-displayed-buffer-window'
`with-temp-buffer-window'
The number of functions, that only accept a buffer is vast and probably
outnumbers that list above, so I am not going to list them here.
These are some disadvantages of such a change, that come to my mind:
1. Could the acceptance of a string in that place of the argument
prohibit possible future possibilites?
2. Does the newly accepted argument type sacrifice function purity
and/or side-effect-freeness?
3. API inconsistency.
4. Slightly increased code complexity, especially in the C part of
the code base.
My commentary in this particular case would be, that I dont see how now
accepting strings in addition would shadow any future usage of that ( or
other ) functions. Neither do I see how it would break function purity
or side-effect-freeness, but that could just be my lack of imagination.
As for the advantage my main argument would be convenience. It does
reduce user's elisp code and and makes smaller evaluations in the
minibuffer easier to type.
I wanted to file some more of such polymorphism suggestions. Would those
be welcome?
--
Daniel Nagy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-11-02 20:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-11-01 16:31 bug#66890: 29.1; buffer-size should also accept the buffer's name as string argument Daniel Nagy
2023-11-02 6:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-02 19:38 ` Stefan Kangas
2023-11-02 20:55 ` Daniel Nagy [this message]
2023-11-03 13:38 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-11-04 0:21 ` Stefan Kangas
2023-11-04 6:03 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-11-04 10:43 ` Stefan Kangas
2023-11-04 20:57 ` Daniel Nagy
2023-11-04 22:12 ` Drew Adams
2023-11-05 5:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-05 23:02 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
[not found] ` <87bkcbzy6c.fsf@posteo.de>
2023-11-03 6:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
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