From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: hidden buffers for async (was Re: Threads in emacs implementation) Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 20:13:55 -0400 Message-ID: References: <6dbd4d0005060619227dd41364@mail.gmail.com> <87vf4oaft8.fsf@zemdatav.stor.no-ip.org> <87vf4oaao5.fsf@kanga.tapsellferrier.co.uk> <87ll5ka5j7.fsf@zemdatav.stor.no-ip.org> <87is0oa35h.fsf_-_@kanga.tapsellferrier.co.uk> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1118362518 4000 80.91.229.2 (10 Jun 2005 00:15:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 00:15:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 10 02:15:12 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DgXAp-0007jH-OY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Jun 2005 02:14:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DgXHq-0006h1-Rj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Jun 2005 20:22:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DgXE8-0005BH-1L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jun 2005 20:18:24 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DgXE3-00058h-5q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jun 2005 20:18:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DgXE2-000577-RP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jun 2005 20:18:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DgXAB-0000sQ-Pb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jun 2005 20:14:19 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1DgX9n-0006Q8-B4; Thu, 09 Jun 2005 20:13:55 -0400 Original-To: Nic Ferrier In-reply-to: <87is0oa35h.fsf_-_@kanga.tapsellferrier.co.uk> (message from Nic Ferrier on Wed, 08 Jun 2005 23:34:50 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:38475 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:38475 Something that would help a great deal is if one could create a buffer that was hidden, ie: it did not ordinarily appear in the buffer list and was not returned by a call to: (get-buffer buffername) Why do you think this is necessary? I don't see what problem this would solve.