From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: when nothing happens, buffer still marked as modified Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2018 11:09:24 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <861s6wxp2j.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <86sgzcy9gk.fsf@zoho.eu> <86a7lkxwr7.fsf@zoho.eu> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1544004517 6337 195.159.176.226 (5 Dec 2018 10:08:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2018 10:08:37 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 05 11:08:33 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1gUU6a-0001WZ-M4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Dec 2018 11:08:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33230 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gUU8h-0007TK-5D for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Dec 2018 05:10:43 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin3!goblin1!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: IYul6C8CwghWjVz/CRhiVw.user.gioia.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.3 Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:I/TKm0kPvYbKDC++kt7XwUQwzNY= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:224729 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:118858 Archived-At: 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