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From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: when nothing happens, buffer still marked as modified
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2018 12:58:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bm60qj5w.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <861s6wxp2j.fsf@zoho.eu> (Emanuel Berg's message of "Wed, 05 Dec 2018 11:09:24 +0100")

Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu> writes:

> Don't you think it is confusing, even incorrect, to have the buffer
> change status when the data hasn't changed from the command?

See Bug#13949 and related.  AFAIR most people agreed that it would be
nice if Emacs behave differently in cases like yours, but it is an
absolutely non-trivial problem, and any solution wouldn't be extensive
and have downsides.

Michael.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-12-05 11:58 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
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 [this message]
     [not found]         ` <mailman.5204.1544007548.1284.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-12-06  0:47           ` Emanuel Berg

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