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From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
To: Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: function for inserting a block
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2017 10:23:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y3pwkx5u.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878thwdwif.fsf@alphapapa.net> (Adam Porter's message of "Sun, 03 Sep 2017 03:19:52 -0500")

Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net> writes:

> "...it is a good idea to make a marker point nowhere if you are sure you
> don’t need it any more.  Markers that can no longer be accessed are
> eventually removed (*note Garbage Collection::)."
>
> I asked on /r/emacs about this but never got a firm answer; some thought
> that they are never collected and require manual clearing, others
> thought that ones that go out-of-scope are eventually collected and that
> it's not typically necessary to clear them manually.  I also recall
> seeing some code recently that didn't manually clear the markers it
> created, so I wonder if that is true.

The are not collected as long as the buffer they point to is alive. If
they are not attached to any buffer, they are marked for garbage
collection.

Regards,

  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-03  8:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 104+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-03  0:25 function for inserting a block Eric Abrahamsen
2017-09-03  2:21 ` Adam Porter
2017-09-03  3:06   ` Kaushal Modi
2017-09-03  3:34     ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-09-03  8:10 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-09-03  8:19   ` Adam Porter
2017-09-03  8:23     ` Nicolas Goaziou [this message]
2017-09-03 15:56   ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-09-03 18:31     ` Josiah Schwab
2017-09-03 19:28       ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-09-03 20:26         ` Josiah Schwab
2017-09-03 20:44           ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-09-08 18:52     ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-09-10 12:44       ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-09-10 18:39         ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-09-29 20:09           ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-09-30 20:26             ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-10-05 14:47               ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-10-07 20:03                 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-10-14 10:52                   ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-10-16 19:46                     ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-10-16 19:59                       ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-10-17  7:46                       ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-10-17 16:27                         ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-10-17 21:33                           ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-10-17 21:43                             ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-10-17 22:03                               ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-10-18  6:45                                 ` Carsten Dominik
2017-10-18 14:58                                   ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-10-19 15:47                                     ` Carsten Dominik
2017-10-20 18:04                                       ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-10-20 18:39                                         ` Kaushal Modi
2017-10-20 19:02                                           ` Kaushal Modi
2017-10-20 21:15                                             ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-10-20 21:13                                           ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-10-20 21:43                                             ` Kaushal Modi
2017-10-21 11:30                                               ` Xebar Saram
2017-10-21 11:59                                                 ` Marco Wahl
2017-10-21 13:32                                                   ` Xebar Saram
2017-10-21 15:56                                               ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-10-23 10:52                                               ` Kaushal Modi
2017-10-23 14:00                                                 ` Carsten Dominik
2017-10-23 14:46                                                   ` Kaushal Modi
2017-10-23 15:11                                                 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-10-23 16:55                                                   ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-10-24  0:18                                                     ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-10-24  0:20                                                       ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-10-24 12:10                                                       ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-10-28 22:27                                                         ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-10-30 11:05                                                           ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-10-30 15:08                                                             ` Eric S Fraga
2017-10-30 16:22                                                             ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-10-30 17:57                                                               ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-11-05  9:06                                                                 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-11-05 14:24                                                                   ` Kaushal Modi
2017-11-05 14:37                                                                     ` Kaushal Modi
2017-11-06 13:48                                                                       ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-11-06 16:23                                                                         ` Kaushal Modi
2017-11-05 21:25                                                                   ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-12-10  9:36                                                           ` Thorsten Jolitz
2017-10-22  9:54                                             ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-10-22 17:49                                               ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-11-08 11:20                                                 ` Bastien
2017-11-08 11:44                                                   ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-11-08 12:14                                                     ` Bastien
2017-11-08 12:25                                                       ` Restore old easy template feature (Re: function for inserting a block) Kaushal Modi
2017-11-08 12:43                                                         ` Kaushal Modi
2017-11-08 14:08                                                           ` Bastien Guerry
2017-12-18 22:07                                                             ` Matt Price
2017-12-19  1:44                                                               ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-12-19 10:04                                                               ` Rasmus
2017-12-19 17:49                                                                 ` Matt Price
2017-11-08 13:35                                                         ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-11-08 13:34                                                       ` function for inserting a block Nicolas Goaziou
2017-11-08 14:34                                                         ` Bastien Guerry
2017-11-08 16:01                                                           ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-11-08 16:33                                                       ` William Denton
2017-11-08 14:07                                                     ` Rasmus
2017-11-08 17:09                                                       ` Berry, Charles
2017-11-08 17:28                                                         ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-11-08 18:24                                                         ` Thomas S. Dye
2017-11-08 18:51                                                           ` Takaaki Ishikawa
2017-11-08 20:10                                                             ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-11-08 22:28                                                             ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-11-09  4:31                                                               ` Thomas S. Dye
2017-11-09  7:55                                                                 ` Carsten Dominik
2017-11-12  4:35                                                                   ` Matt Lundin
2017-11-12  6:08                                                                     ` numbchild
2017-11-09 14:46                                                               ` Rasmus
2017-11-09 16:11                                                                 ` Rasmus
2017-11-09 16:50                                                                   ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-11-10  9:31                                                                     ` Rasmus
2017-11-10 17:27                                                                       ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-11-11 16:51                                                                         ` Thomas S. Dye
2017-11-14 21:36                                                                           ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-11-15 13:13                                                                             ` numbchild
2017-11-15 16:24                                                                               ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-11-17 16:19                                                                                 ` numbchild
2017-11-17 19:14                                                                                   ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-11-18  0:09                                                                                     ` numbchild
2017-11-20 13:40                                                                             ` Rasmus
2017-11-20 16:49                                                                               ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-11-11  4:13                                                                       ` stardiviner
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2017-11-10  4:19 ` James Harkins

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