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: Thu, 06 Dec 2018 01:47:37 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <86woonwkeu.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <86sgzcy9gk.fsf@zoho.eu> <86a7lkxwr7.fsf@zoho.eu> <861s6wxp2j.fsf@zoho.eu> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1544057334 1695 195.159.176.226 (6 Dec 2018 00:48:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2018 00:48:54 +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 Thu Dec 06 01:48:50 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 1gUhqT-0000LF-P2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Dec 2018 01:48:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38257 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gUhsa-0006E1-DK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Dec 2018 19:51:00 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 20 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 Cancel-Lock: sha1:7Zvj2b/JPH6nOuIxEFpCzcWJ2g0= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:224750 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:118879 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Don't you think it is confusing, even >> incorrect, to have the buffer change status >> when the data hasn't changed from >> the command? > > The data did change, it just eventually > arrived at the same contents. Sheer luck. I see. In a way that makes sense. If you hit someone in the head with a bottle, but by sheer luck do not inflict any physical or mental damage whatsoever, it should still be considered a crime. Put it up `**' in the criminal record with my blessing! -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573