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bug#66890: 29.1; buffer-size should also accept the buffer's name as str
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Eli Zaretskii |
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bug#66890: 29.1; buffer-size should also accept the buffer's name as string argument |
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Thu, 02 Nov 2023 08:32:38 +0200 |
> From: Daniel Nagy <danielnagy@posteo.de>
> Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2023 16:31:01 +0000
>
> The current signature of #'buffer-size is:
>
> (buffer-size &optional BUFFER)
>
> It can only handle actual buffer objects as the argument. Could it be
> made to accept the buffer name as a string as well? So that it's
> signature would become:
>
> (buffer-size &optional BUFFER-OR-NAME)
>
> Other functions, like #'get-buffer already do this.
It's very easy to get the buffer from its name. You could do
(buffer-size (get-buffer BUFFER-OR-NAME))
So I wonder whether it is worth our while to convert more functions to
accept both buffers and names of buffers.
Stefan, WDYT?
- bug#66890: 29.1; buffer-size should also accept the buffer's name as string argument, Daniel Nagy, 2023/11/02
- bug#66890: 29.1; buffer-size should also accept the buffer's name as string argument,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#66890: 29.1; buffer-size should also accept the buffer's name as string argument, Stefan Kangas, 2023/11/02
- bug#66890: 29.1; buffer-size should also accept the buffer's name as string argument, Daniel Nagy, 2023/11/02
- bug#66890: 29.1; buffer-size should also accept the buffer's name as string argument, Stefan Monnier, 2023/11/03
- bug#66890: 29.1; buffer-size should also accept the buffer's name as string argument, Stefan Kangas, 2023/11/03
- bug#66890: 29.1; buffer-size should also accept the buffer's name as string argument, Stefan Monnier, 2023/11/04
- bug#66890: 29.1; buffer-size should also accept the buffer's name as string argument, Stefan Kangas, 2023/11/04
- bug#66890: 29.1; buffer-size should also accept the buffer's name as string argument, Daniel Nagy, 2023/11/04
- bug#66890: 29.1; buffer-size should also accept the buffer's name as string argument, Drew Adams, 2023/11/04
- bug#66890: 29.1; buffer-size should also accept the buffer's name as string argument, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/11/05
- bug#66890: 29.1; buffer-size should also accept the buffer's name as string argument, Stefan Monnier, 2023/11/05