Gimp.buffer_rename
Description: Reference for Gimp.buffer_rename

### Function

# Gimpbuffer_rename

since: 2.4

#### Declaration [src]

    gchar*
    gimp_buffer_rename (
      const gchar* buffer_name,
      const gchar* new_name
    )

#### Description [src]

Renames a named buffer.

This procedure renames a named buffer.

Available since: 2.4

#### Parameters

`buffer_name`

  Type: `const gchar*`

  The buffer name.

  The data is owned by the caller of the function.
  The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.

`new_name`

  Type: `const gchar*`

  The buffer’s new name.

  The data is owned by the caller of the function.
  The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.

#### Return value

Type: `gchar*`

The real name given to the buffer. The returned value must be freed with g_free().

The caller of the function takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.
The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.