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Buffer Names Beginning with a Space Are Hidden from Emacs Buffer List and Menubar

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From: Sean Whitton <spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name>
To: 78973 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: control <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>, heimeborgia <at> protonmail.com
Subject: bug#78973: Buffer Names Beginning with a Space Are Hidden from Emacs Buffer List and Menubar
Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2025 11:42:22 +0100

tag 78973 notabug
close 78973
thanks

Hello,

On Wed 09 Jul 2025 at 12:11am +02, Stephen Berman via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" wrote:

> On Tue, 08 Jul 2025 13:50:50 +0000 Heime via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org> 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::).

Right.  Closing.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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