From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master e8488bcc9c: Avoid having font locking triggering unnecessary auto-saving
Date: Mon, 09 May 2022 22:11:41 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvpmkmt9yd.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k0aunohy.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Tue, 10 May 2022 03:51:53 +0200")
>> [ I'd use `(unless (eq ,modified t)` ]
> The return value is now defined as nil/`autosaved'/non-nil, so assuming
> t is no longer the thing.
:-)
>> But... hmm... what if `body` caused the modified-p status to change from
>> `autosaved` to `nil`. With the old code, we'd leave `nil` untouched,
>> but with the new code we'd re-set it to `autosaved`.
>>
>> Admittedly, it's quite unlikely for `body` to save the buffer (and hence
>> cause the modified-p status to change from `autosaved` to `nil`), so I'm
>> not sure how important this is.
>
> I think that's probably outside the scope for this macro.
Fair enough. In that case, maybe it can even call
`restore-buffer-modified-p` unconditionally.
>> I think this will not do the right thing if you call
>> `(restore-buffer-modified-p 'autosaved)` when modified-p is `nil`.
>
> Yeah, the semantics are slightly obscure now, but you're not supposed to
> call the function with `autosaved' when it hasn't been modified.
> Perhaps it should just signal an error in that case?
Why not make it DTRT and make sure
(buffer-modified-p (restore-buffer-modified-p FLAG))
always returns FLAG if FLAG is one of nil/t/autosaved (and add a few
tests while we're at it)?
Stefan
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2022-05-07 16:06 ` master e8488bcc9c: Avoid having font locking triggering unnecessary auto-saving Stefan Monnier
2022-05-07 16:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-07 16:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-05-07 16:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-07 17:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-05-07 17:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-07 16:49 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-09 12:37 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-09 13:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-05-09 13:35 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-09 13:47 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-09 15:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-05-09 16:05 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-09 16:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-09 16:45 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-09 17:40 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-09 18:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-05-10 1:51 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-10 2:11 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2022-05-10 11:45 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-10 11:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-05-11 11:22 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-11 13:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-05-12 0:18 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-09 17:00 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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