Re: [OT] Restricting access to certain buffers

SY> Apologies for the off-topic post. I know that there are SY> better suited forums for this, but I don't have access to them SY> at this time. SY> I'm wondering if it is possible to display a buffer that can't SY> be selected? SY> For something that I'm working on, I have a frame layout that SY> looks something like this... I think it would be hard to restrict access to buffers. However, if the text displayed in a, b, and c is all program-generated (not necessarily static, but not input by the user), you could put those in the top gutter. I don't know exactly how that would work, though. If you really want to restrict access to buffers (and that would surely be easier if (a) and (b) are multiline texts in a side-by-side pair of windows), you could advise switch-to-buffer and friends (how many, I dunno---that's the rub) to error on the "unselectable" buffers. There might be a lower-level way to accomplish this. Eg, advise set-buffer to puke if (and (interactivep) (memq buffer sy/unselectable-buffers)) although interactivep might very well be off by the time you get there. -- 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.