From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: hidden buffers for async (was Re: Threads in emacs implementation) Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 08:36:33 +0900 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: snogglethorpe@gmail.com, miles@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1118274319 28969 80.91.229.2 (8 Jun 2005 23:45:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 23:45:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 09 01:45:18 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DgADs-0006dS-6D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Jun 2005 01:44:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DgAKg-00073R-6v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Jun 2005 19:51:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DgAHt-0005pH-Cf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jun 2005 19:48:45 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DgAHn-0005mc-Vq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jun 2005 19:48:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DgAHm-0005cu-J9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jun 2005 19:48:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [64.233.184.207] (helo=wproxy.gmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DgA67-00048y-Hi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jun 2005 19:36:35 -0400 Original-Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 40so84924wri for ; Wed, 08 Jun 2005 16:36:33 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=lR0HWqQsZu/M8gv6V5w3+lyJ2HsIgooipLK5r1B+hZJ7qa68PV4zNGsNxsElVwDeHKRtn4qez8QuYBsnd7T97czA3P9J6HAQvCa6xYamov6RaOlui/NqJ6LPnnmMJKe3S+OG1Jqim/qgc2fwx3YEjLjlVFMha6lqs91wKtRsmhs= Original-Received: by 10.54.55.70 with SMTP id d70mr56700wra; Wed, 08 Jun 2005 16:36:33 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.54.19.31 with HTTP; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 16:36:33 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: Nic Ferrier In-Reply-To: <87is0oa35h.fsf_-_@kanga.tapsellferrier.co.uk> Content-Disposition: inline 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:38394 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:38394 On 6/9/05, Nic Ferrier wrote: > 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: >=20 > (get-buffer buffername) Why? The goal of not annoying users is served well enough by the leading-space convention, and there's ample support for creating unique buffers; why do you need a truly anonymous buffer? -Miles --=20 Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.