Re: add optional BASE-DIRECTORY argument to SAVE-SOME-BUFFERS?

Greg> I would like to know if there is support for adding another Greg> optional argument to save-some-buffers, "base-directory". Greg> If non-null, buffers visiting files not located under the Greg> base-directory would be skipped. Let's not do it this way. We already have several ad hoc ways of selecting certain buffers in a scattering of functions. What we should aim at is to move all these functions (the buffers tab, various! buffer menus, etc) to a common set of buffer filter functions and a common API for uing them. The buffers tab (code is in >= 21.4 core in lisp/gutter-items.el) already uses a fairly complex filtering scheme; I suggest looking at that. There's also the buffer menu and the ibuffer library. I'm not asking you to unify the others (of course I wouldn't sneeze at a patch ;-), just to look at them, decide which one seems most general/sane and use a similar API. Then it's just a matter of an indirect function call instead of a very similar direct function call or inline code. I can very easily see people wanting to use your function in the buffers tab, can't you? -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.