From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord)
Cc: 25111@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25111:
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 18:06:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83lgvlcet1.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878trmxgjh.fsf@russet.org.uk> (phillip.lord@russet.org.uk)
> From: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord)
> Cc: 25111@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2016 22:11:14 +0000
>
> So, instead of this:
>
> If these functions modify the buffer, they should bind
> ‘inhibit-modification-hooks’ to ‘t’ around doing so, to avoid
> confusing the internal mechanism that calls these hooks.
>
>
> We could have:
>
> These functions should avoid unnecessarily modifying the buffer.
> Emacs binds 'inhibit-modification-hooks' to `t' during their
> evaluation, which means that any modifications will not be signalled
> to other hook functions listening for them.
>
>
> Perhaps a better solution would be:
>
>
> These functions should avoid unnecessarily modifying the buffer; see
> Change Hooks for further details.
>
>
> Then a new paragraph can be added to the Change Hooks section talking
> about the complexity of modifying buffers on these hooks, with
> alternatives.
>
> I am happy to draft something if you wish.
Sure, please do.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-12 16:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-04 20:53 bug#25111: Phillip Lord
2016-12-05 15:33 ` bug#25111: Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <87wpfbpual.fsf@russet.org.uk>
2016-12-07 16:40 ` bug#25111: Phillip Lord
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2016-12-08 15:55 ` bug#25111: Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-09 17:17 ` bug#25111: Phillip Lord
2016-12-09 17:26 ` bug#25111: Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-11 22:11 ` bug#25111: Phillip Lord
2016-12-12 16:06 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-05-19 20:31 ` bug#25111: (Inaccurate documentation of inhibit-modification-hooks) Alan Mackenzie
2019-05-25 12:39 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-05-25 13:44 ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-05-25 14:36 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-05-27 14:31 ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-06-03 19:15 ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-06-03 19:26 ` npostavs
2019-06-04 9:32 ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-06-04 14:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-09 12:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-09 20:45 ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-06-24 12:52 ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-06-24 22:48 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-06-25 9:17 ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-05-25 13:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-05 17:39 ` bug#25111: How modification-hooks let-bind inhibit-modification-hooks? Noam Postavsky
2016-12-05 18:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-03-09 19:34 ` Noam Postavsky
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