From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Unbalanced change hooks (part 2) [Documentation fix still remaining] Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2016 05:19:10 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83tweugeu9.fsf@gnu.org> <20160809163814.GD4893@acm.fritz.box> <83inv9hkjd.fsf@gnu.org> <83h9ashfgx.fsf@gnu.org> <831t1wharr.fsf@gnu.org> <83mvkaduh0.fsf@gnu.org> <20160819084526.GA1971@acm.fritz.box> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1471598381 13376 195.159.176.226 (19 Aug 2016 09:19:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2016 09:19:41 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 19 11:19:37 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bafxh-0003Iv-Lf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Aug 2016 11:19:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56360 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bafxe-0002g6-Qh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Aug 2016 05:19:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41247) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bafxY-0002fq-DG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Aug 2016 05:19:29 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bafxS-0001Wm-D1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Aug 2016 05:19:27 -0400 Original-Received: from pruche.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.22]:58799) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bafxS-0001Wi-8R; Fri, 19 Aug 2016 05:19:22 -0400 Original-Received: from fmsmemgm.homelinux.net (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by pruche.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.7/8.14.1) with ESMTP id u7J9JCYA001928; Fri, 19 Aug 2016 05:19:14 -0400 Original-Received: by fmsmemgm.homelinux.net (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 4375CAE0E7; Fri, 19 Aug 2016 05:19:10 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20160819084526.GA1971@acm.fritz.box> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Fri, 19 Aug 2016 08:45:26 +0000") X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV5770=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9418 : core <5770> : inlines <5119> : streams <1686556> : uri <2269915> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.22 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:206663 Archived-At: >> This variable holds a list of functions to call when Emacs is about >> to modify a buffer. > Somebody wanting to use b-c-f and reading that text is likely to conclude > that b-c-f is called for _every_ change, just as I did ~10 years ago. That's a correct reading, and the code has been obeying this rule "forever", except for a few bugs maybe, the only remaining one apparently being the one in insert-file-contents. Stefan