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Re: record-buffer and unrecord-buffer
From: |
martin rudalics |
Subject: |
Re: record-buffer and unrecord-buffer |
Date: |
Wed, 24 Aug 2011 20:20:05 +0200 |
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Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) |
> Why are these new built-in functions necessary? Firstly, their names
> are not descriptive; moving a buffer to the front or back of the buffer
> list is not a good match for the words "recording" or "unrecording".
I took the names from the corresponding C functions. Feel free to give
them suitable names.
> Secondly, we already have the function bury-buffer, so why introduce yet
> another function that does the same thing?
Because in Emacs 23 `bury-buffer' was in C and some buffer list actions
are too sensitive to move to Elisp.
martin