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Re: What happens with overlays when their buffer is killed?
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: What happens with overlays when their buffer is killed? |
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Mon, 26 Mar 2018 13:55:06 -0400 |
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> assume that I create a few overlays in some buffer, and then I kill that
> buffer. What happens with the overlays?
When a buffer is killed, all the markers (and overlays) it holds are
"deleted" (aka moved so they point to any buffer any more). This is
equivalent to calling `delete-overlay` for overlays (and set-marker
with a nil value for markers).
> If they were not assigned to a variable, do they get
> garbage collected?
Yes.
Stefan