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Add buffer-matching functionality

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: 54296 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, philipk <at> posteo.net, larsi <at> gnus.org
Subject: bug#54296: Add buffer-matching functionality
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2022 05:34:33 +0300

> Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2022 22:46:49 +0300
> Cc: 54296 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, philipk <at> posteo.net, larsi <at> gnus.org
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
> 
> On 14.06.2022 22:17, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > No, I proposed to use the "predicate function" method (which already
> > exists).
> 
> Then the downside is "it's not readable". Or editable, really.
> 
> At this point you could say that we need to support lambas anyway (ok), 
> and if people use them, we can use it for this purpose too.
> 
> But it seems to me that, by not supporting lambdas so far, over the 
> couple of years since its introduction, project-kill-buffer-conditions 
> has kind of proven its minimal DSL to be viable.
> 
> And if by having the 'major-mode eq' matcher we manage to avoid the use 
> of lambdas in 99%+ use cases, then that's a win for usability.

This is all a moot point, since eventually 'major-mode' was left in
the code.  Any of the suggestions I had for removing it are therefore
purely academic at this point, nothing to argue about.

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