Re: when nothing happens, buffer still marked as modified

[Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>]

On Wed, Dec 05 2018, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu>
>> Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2018 11:09:24 +0100
>> 
>> 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"?
>
> 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.

Now I'm confused. The NEWS section for Emacs 26 says:

** 'fill-paragraph' no longer marks the buffer as changed unless 
   it
actually changed something.

Which seems to be implemented (correct me if I'm wrong, I only 
took a very quick look) by using `buffer-hash'. I thought that was 
what you meant when you said "do as it does"...


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Joost Kremers
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