Re: xref and leaving "temporary" buffers open

[Stephen Leake]

Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden> writes:

> On 07/25/2015 06:53 PM, martin rudalics wrote:
>
>> All file visiting functions must be aware of it and take it out.  As far
>> as implementation is concerned we have the usual two choices: Pass an
>> extra argument (clean but costly) or bind some variable around the calls
>> that visit the file in the background which is probably the way to go.
>
> How about this:
>
> (defvar-local buffer-hidden nil
>   "When non-nil, this buffer is not returned by `buffer-list',
> unless passed a non-nil INCLUDE-HIDDEN argument.")

That means you have to use set-buffer to check for the buffer-local
variable.

Can't we set a property list on the buffer itself? That would be more
efficient to search on.

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