Re: hidden buffers for async (was Re: Threads in emacs implementation)

[Miles Bader]

On 6/9/05, Nic Ferrier <address@hidden> wrote:
> Something that would help a great deal is if one could create a buffer
> that was hidden, ie: it did not ordinarily appear in the buffer list
> and was not returned by a call to:
> 
>     (get-buffer buffername)

Why?

The goal of not annoying users is served well enough by the
leading-space convention, and there's ample support for creating
unique buffers; why do you need a truly anonymous buffer?

-Miles
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