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From: eliot@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Eliot Handelman)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: switch-to-buffer NORECORD
Message-ID: <6314@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 12 Feb 89 03:20:48 GMT
Reply-To: eliot@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Eliot Handelman)
Organization: Princeton University, NJ
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If I'm bapping around between two files that I'm editing and a lisp
process, I want the default value sent to switch-to-buffer to be
the last file visited, not the *lisp* buffer. It turns out that
switch to buffer has a second optional value, called NORECORD, which
should do what I want. Now if only I could figure out how to use it.

There has got to be some variable bound to the default buffer (the
last one visited), but what's it called? How do I prevent buffers
like *lisp* from getting bound to it? How do I make sure that it only
records buffers whose name ends in .lisp?

In case it's not clear what I'm looking for, here's an example:

1. I'm editing dog.lisp.
2. Now I go into the lisp process, called *lisp* -- the default buffer
   is now dog.lisp.
3. I now leave *lisp* and edit mazurka.lisp. the default buffer is now *lisp*.
   This is what I'm trying to prevent -- I want the default buffer to still
   be dog.lisp. I want whoever records the name of the last visted buffer
   (or however it works) to ignore everything that doesn't end in .lisp.

Help, anyone?

-Eliot