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From: Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: when nothing happens, buffer still marked as modified
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2018 11:09:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <861s6wxp2j.fsf@zoho.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.5196.1543998171.1284.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> But how do I determine if the buffer has
>> changed or not? If it has, of course it
>> should be marked `**'!
>
> That's the same problem that M-q has, and it
> leaves the modified status intact. Why not do
> as it does?

I'm not following, "Why not do as it does"?

> You could, of course, save a copy of the
> buffer before the changes, and then compare,
> but why bother?

Don't you think it is confusing, even
incorrect, to have the buffer change status
when the data hasn't changed from the command?

-- 
underground experts united
http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573


  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-12-05 10:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-05  2:48 when nothing happens, buffer still marked as modified Emanuel Berg
2018-12-05  6:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] ` <mailman.5189.1543993692.1284.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-12-05  7:23   ` Emanuel Berg
2018-12-05  8:22     ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]     ` <mailman.5196.1543998171.1284.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-12-05 10:09       ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2018-12-05 10:58         ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-12-05 13:39           ` Amin Bandali
2018-12-05 13:57             ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-12-05 15:00           ` Joost Kremers
2018-12-05 17:54             ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-12-05 18:35             ` Michael Heerdegen
     [not found]             ` <mailman.5239.1544035085.1284.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-12-06  0:49               ` Emanuel Berg
2018-12-05 11:58         ` Michael Heerdegen
     [not found]         ` <mailman.5204.1544007548.1284.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-12-06  0:47           ` Emanuel Berg

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