Re: Visiting buffers programmatically

[Tim Johnson]

On 6/10/21 3:31 PM, pillule wrote:
> Tim Johnson <tim@akwebsoft.com> writes:
>
> > GNU Emacs 27.2 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.20, cairo 
> > version 1.16.0)
> >   of 2021-06-04 ubuntu 20.04
> >
> > I would like to write three simple elisp routines that would each visit one of:
> > *scratch*, *messages* and *shell*
> >
> > For *messages* I would only be reading or copying text.
> > For *scratch* and *shell* I would be modifying those buffers.
> >
> > which elisp function is best for each of
> > these buffers?
> >
> > Would it be switch-to-buffer, display-buffer, set-buffer or something else.?
> > Thanks
> Do you need to see the window displaying the buffer ?
Yes. I would need to see the window that displays the buffer.
> If not you can use 'set-buffer' or the macro 'with-current-buffer' that call it.
>
> The others options are meant to display a buffer and not for batch processing.
If I grok you correctly, batch processing would mean that a whole list 
of buffers
would be processed and displayed.

No, I would not need to do that.

It sounds like switch-to-buffer would work fine?

Thanks pillule
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Tim
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