From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What happens with overlays when their buffer is killed?
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 13:55:06 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvr2o6g1us.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 877epz1eoo.fsf@mbork.pl
> assume that I create a few overlays in some buffer, and then I kill that
> buffer. What happens with the overlays?
When a buffer is killed, all the markers (and overlays) it holds are
"deleted" (aka moved so they point to any buffer any more). This is
equivalent to calling `delete-overlay` for overlays (and set-marker
with a nil value for markers).
> If they were not assigned to a variable, do they get
> garbage collected?
Yes.
Stefan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-26 17:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-26 7:25 What happens with overlays when their buffer is killed? Marcin Borkowski
2018-03-26 15:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-26 16:44 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-03-26 17:55 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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