Re: Misunderstanding set-buffer-modified-p?

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> It "doesn't work", in the sense that the buffer modeline is still marked
>> modified after the function completes. It's not just a redisplay issue,
>> either: running M-: (buffer-modified-p) returns t.
>
> [...]
>
>> Can anyone tell me if I'm doing something wrong, or I've understood
>> something incorrectly?
>
> I think what you're doing should work, so I'm wondering whether
> something in the code is changing the current buffer, and you're calling
> (set-buffer-modified-p nil) in the wrong buffer?  Not that any of the
> functions between `with-current-buffer' and setting the modified flag
> look suspicious, but...

Sheesh, that was the right hint, and I should have been able to see that
myself. `sieve-buffer' isn't the script buffer, it's the "control panel"
buffer, so the call to `set-buffer-modified-p' belongs outside the
`with-current-buffer'. Thanks for the nudge.

Eric