Re: HowTo: Run a hook when a buffer becomes "current"

[Richard Stallman]

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  > I was looking for a way of running a function  when a buffer becomes
  > "current". I cant find any hooks in Emacs -- the closest is
  > buffer-list-update-hook -- but that gets called way too often including
  > when a buffer is buried, is visited transiently from within lisp code
  > etc.

This is one of the hooks I decided we should not have.  If changing
the current buffer, with set-buffer for instance, can affect execution
of code, you'll never be able to debug code when that hook is in use.

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