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(The Buffer List): Clarify the manipulation of the buffer list.

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@node The Buffer List
@section The Buffer List
@cindex buffer list

  The @dfn{buffer list} is a list of all live buffers.  Creating a
buffer adds it to this list, and killing a buffer removes it.  The
order of the buffers in the list is based primarily on how recently
each buffer has been displayed in the selected window.  Buffers move
to the front of the list when they are selected (selecting a window
that already displays the buffer counts as selecting the buffer), and
to the end when they are buried (see @code{bury-buffer}, below).
Several functions, notably @code{other-buffer}, use this ordering.  A
buffer list displayed for the user also follows this order.

  In addition to the fundamental Emacs buffer list, each frame has its
own version of the buffer list, in which the buffers that have been
selected in that frame come first, starting with the buffers most
recently selected @emph{in that frame}.  (This order is recorded in
@var{frame}'s @code{buffer-list} frame parameter; see @ref{Buffer

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@node The Buffer List
@section The Buffer List
@cindex buffer list

  The @dfn{buffer list} is a list of all live buffers.  The order of
the buffers in the list is based primarily on how recently each buffer
has been displayed in a window.  Several functions, notably
@code{other-buffer}, use this ordering.  A buffer list displayed for
the user also follows this order.

  Creating a buffer adds it to the end of the buffer list, and killing
a buffer removes it.  Buffers move to the front of the list when they
are selected for display in a window (@pxref{Displaying Buffers}), and
to the end when they are buried (see @code{bury-buffer}, below).
There are no functions available to the Lisp programmer which directly
manipulate the buffer list.
  
  In addition to the fundamental Emacs buffer list, each frame has its
own version of the buffer list, in which the buffers that have been
selected in that frame come first, starting with the buffers most
recently selected @emph{in that frame}.  (This order is recorded in
@var{frame}'s @code{buffer-list} frame parameter; see @ref{Buffer