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From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: How do I find out, in a Lisp program, what is the current buffer?
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2023 14:35:48 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZW81RPhXsI2mq8F0@ACM> (raw)

Hello, Emacs.

I want to find out what is the current buffer, and I mean the REAL
current buffer.

In particular, if that is the minibuffer, I want to be told it's the (or
a) minibuffer, not the buffer it was invoked from.  The function
current-buffer won't do this.

I want to use this for writing the current buffer into the new position
info in the doc string (bug #67455).  Evaluating a defun in the
minibuffer is different from evaluating one in *scratch*.

Is there some way I can get this information from Lisp, or do I have to
write a new C primitive?

Thanks in advance!

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).



             reply	other threads:[~2023-12-05 14:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-12-05 14:35 Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2023-12-05 15:03 ` How do I find out, in a Lisp program, what is the current buffer? Eshel Yaron
2023-12-05 15:20   ` Alan Mackenzie

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