bug#54296: Add buffer-matching functionality

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:

> Either way I would consider these functions useful and would have wanted
> to use them in my own code many times before.  While difficult, it might
> also be useful for things like display-buffer-alist (the issue is that
> a function as a condition in display-buffer-alist has to accept two
> arguments, while the proposed patch only takes one).

Hm...  how would this be used with display-buffer-alist, then?  (And
perhaps Martin has some comments; added to the CCs.)

> To match functions such as string-match, the argument of buffer-match
> could be reversed so that the function can be used as a testfn to
> assoc/alist-get.

I think I'd prefer to have the parameters reversed -- the condition is a
kind of predicate, and these days we seem to prefer to have the
predicate first.

> +(defun buffer-match (buffer condition)
> +  "Return non-nil if BUFFER matches CONDITION.
> +CONDITION is is either:
> +- a regular expression, to match a buffer name,
> +- a predicate function that takes a buffer object as argument
> +  and returns non-nil if the buffer should be killed,

Killed?

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