Subject: Re: bug#78973: Buffer Names Beginning with a Space Are Hidden from Emacs Buffer List and Menubar

From: Stephen Berman <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2025 00:11:04 +0200

On Tue, 08 Jul 2025 13:50:50 +0000 Heime via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <[email-masked]> wrote:

> When I use (get-buffer-create " Time Sched ") with a buffer name that 
> begins with a space, Emacs treats it as a special (internal) buffer. 
> As a result, this buffer will not appear in the Buffers List or the 
> menubar.
>
> The buffer will be hidden from the standard buffer selection interfaces.

See (info "(emacs) List Buffers"):

     By default, ‘list-buffers’ omits buffers whose names begin with a
  space, unless they visit files: such buffers are used internally by
  Emacs (but the ‘I’ command countermands that, *note Several Buffers::).

Steve Berman