From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: when nothing happens, buffer still marked as modified Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2018 08:55:10 +0200 Message-ID: <83tvjs8nu9.fsf@gnu.org> References: <86sgzcy9gk.fsf@zoho.eu> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1543993595 5992 195.159.176.226 (5 Dec 2018 07:06:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2018 07:06:35 +0000 (UTC) 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 08:06:31 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 1gURGR-0001Rc-86 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Dec 2018 08:06:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60446 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gURIX-0000bS-PI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Dec 2018 02:08:41 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51476) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gURI0-000662-3e for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Dec 2018 02:08:12 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gUR5W-0006it-H3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Dec 2018 01:55:20 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:46977) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gUR5W-0006iO-D9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Dec 2018 01:55:14 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3997 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1gUR5V-0006x2-CD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Dec 2018 01:55:14 -0500 In-reply-to: <86sgzcy9gk.fsf@zoho.eu> (message from Emanuel Berg on Wed, 05 Dec 2018 03:48:59 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:118853 Archived-At: > From: Emanuel Berg > Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2018 03:48:59 +0100 > > Only one thing is missing what I can see, and > that is, when nothing happens (i e the piece of > text is already in the desired shape), the > buffer is still marked as modified (the `**')! > > What is the correct way to prevent that? Use with-silent-modifications, or just manually mark the buffer unmodified using set-buffer-modified-p, when the function is about to return.