Re: (elisp's) buffer.texi: Vagueness in chapter "The Buffer List"

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hi, Emacs!

I've sorted out my difficulties with the buffer list.  I'd like to
suggest the following patch to the Elisp manual, which I think clears up
the vagueness I was complaining about yesterday.

2005-08-15  Alan Mackenzie  <address@hidden>

        * buffers.texi (The Buffer List): Clarify the manipulation of the
        buffer list.


*** buffers.texi        Sun Aug 14 09:23:39 2005
--- buffers-1.43.new.texi       Mon Aug 15 09:27:29 2005
***************
*** 757,772 ****
  @section The Buffer List
  @cindex buffer list
  
!   The @dfn{buffer list} is a list of all live buffers.  Creating a
! buffer adds it to this list, and killing a buffer removes it.  The
! order of the buffers in the list is based primarily on how recently
! each buffer has been displayed in the selected window.  Buffers move
! to the front of the list when they are selected (selecting a window
! that already displays the buffer counts as selecting the buffer), and
! to the end when they are buried (see @code{bury-buffer}, below).
! Several functions, notably @code{other-buffer}, use this ordering.  A
! buffer list displayed for the user also follows this order.
  
    In addition to the fundamental Emacs buffer list, each frame has its
  own version of the buffer list, in which the buffers that have been
  selected in that frame come first, starting with the buffers most
--- 757,775 ----
  @section The Buffer List
  @cindex buffer list
  
!   The @dfn{buffer list} is a list of all live buffers.  The order of
! the buffers in the list is based primarily on how recently each buffer
! has been displayed in a window.  Several functions, notably
! @code{other-buffer}, use this ordering.  A buffer list displayed for
! the user also follows this order.
  
+   Creating a buffer adds it to the end of the buffer list, and killing
+ a buffer removes it.  Buffers move to the front of the list when they
+ are selected for display in a window (@pxref{Displaying Buffers}), and
+ to the end when they are buried (see @code{bury-buffer}, below).
+ There are no functions available to the Lisp programmer which directly
+ manipulate the buffer list.
+   
    In addition to the fundamental Emacs buffer list, each frame has its
  own version of the buffer list, in which the buffers that have been
  selected in that frame come first, starting with the buffers most


-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Munich, Germany)