From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: when nothing happens, buffer still marked as modified
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2018 15:57:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ftvc84at.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878t14drdm.fsf@aminb.org> (message from Amin Bandali on Wed, 05 Dec 2018 08:39:49 -0500)
> From: Amin Bandali <bandali@gnu.org>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2018 08:39:49 -0500
>
> On 2018-12-05 12:58 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > I mean why not follow M-q's example? It marks the buffer modified
> > even if re-filling the text arrived at the same text as before the
> > command.
>
> I’d noticed that in the past and found it strange. Are there any
> strong reasons for keeping the current behaviour vs. only marking
> the buffer as modified when re-filling actually results in a
> change?
The only strong reason is that it's not trivial to implement, and no
one has yet proposed a satisfactory patch to do that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-12-05 13:57 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
2018-12-05 10:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-12-05 13:39 ` Amin Bandali
2018-12-05 13:57 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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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