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Re: threads and kill-buffer


From: martin rudalics
Subject: Re: threads and kill-buffer
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2012 11:52:11 +0200

> And if you are going to ask next about buffer B's backtrace buffer, I
> guess we will have to arrange for it to be called *Backtrace*<2> in
> this case.

And that would break the old `debug' code and any code that relies on
hard-coded buffer names.  String constants like *Backtrace* or *Help*
are part of the global Emacs state.  Changing that might be profitable
but is certainly more tedious than implementing threads in the first
place.

martin



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