From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Occur stack Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 14:54:55 +0100 Message-ID: <87txd41174.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <8738kq5xo5.fsf@yahoo.fr> <87ob3d645m.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87a9ex8vi8.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87eh49cfa8.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <874n5448aa.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87lhygi7ja.fsf@building.gnus.org> <87r4882oye.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389880545 2256 80.91.229.3 (16 Jan 2014 13:55:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 13:55:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 16 14:55:52 2014 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 1W3nQF-0005os-5d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 14:55:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60936 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3nQC-0001jP-Pj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 08:55:48 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53046) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3nQ6-0001j6-BQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 08:55:46 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3nQ3-0007aY-Nc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 08:55:42 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:47405) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3nQ3-0007aM-EJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 08:55:39 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54580 helo=lola) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3nQ2-00036N-Uk; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 08:55:39 -0500 Original-Received: by lola (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B5210E0497; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 14:54:55 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Thu, 16 Jan 2014 08:47:02 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:168528 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >> I see no actual point moving the history into strings from buffers and >> back again: easier to just keep the buffers. > > The problem is that Emacs doesn't have anonymous buffers, so all those > buffers will appear in your buffer list and C-x b completion and ... The last time I looked, buffers with names starting with a space were pretty discrete about that. > Better keep strings. If you keep large buffer contents in strings, you won't be able to figure out where your memory went. -- David Kastrup