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From: Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>
To: raman <raman@google.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: HowTo: Run a hook when a buffer becomes "current"
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2015 09:56:57 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r3ikiknq.fsf@red-bean.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <p911tamjqmy.fsf@google.com> (raman@google.com's message of "Wed,  16 Dec 2015 08:37:57 -0800")

raman <raman@google.com> writes:
>I was looking for a way of running a function  when a buffer becomes
>"current". I cant find any hooks in Emacs -- the closest is
>buffer-list-update-hook -- but that gets called way too often including
>when a buffer is buried, is visited transiently from within lisp code
>etc.
>
>Is there a hook that I'm missing, or  is advice the only fallback I have?

I'm curious what your larger goal is?

(Would want to know that before suggesting `select-buffer-hook' be created :-) ...)



  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-12-18  1:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-16 16:37 HowTo: Run a hook when a buffer becomes "current" raman
2015-12-16 21:51 ` Nicolas Richard
2015-12-16 23:04   ` David Kastrup
2015-12-16 23:20     ` T.V Raman
2015-12-17  4:58 ` Richard Stallman
2015-12-17 16:15   ` raman
2015-12-18  4:04     ` Richard Stallman
2015-12-18  4:20       ` raman
2015-12-18  9:30         ` David Kastrup
2015-12-18 16:15           ` raman
2015-12-19  4:37         ` Richard Stallman
2015-12-19 16:43           ` raman
2015-12-19 17:07             ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-12-20  3:07               ` raman
2015-12-22 17:47         ` John Wiegley
2015-12-22 18:19           ` raman
2015-12-18  1:56 ` Karl Fogel [this message]
2015-12-18  3:19   ` raman
2015-12-18 12:14     ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-12-18 16:18       ` raman
2015-12-18 17:06         ` David Kastrup
2015-12-18 18:13           ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-12-18 18:28             ` T.V Raman
2015-12-18 20:12               ` Drew Adams

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