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From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>, 45178@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#45178: buffer-hash docstring should explain difference to secure-hash
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2020 11:47:23 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lfds7l84.fsf@tcd.ie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87im988ezx.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Fri, 11 Dec 2020 17:49:22 +0100")

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:
>
>> I guess what I don't understand is why I would _ever_ want to use this
>> function.  I mean, why not just compare buffers using `secure-hash'?
>
> `buffer-hash' is fast, so you can use it to compare the buffer contents
> before and after doing things like `indent-sexp' to see whether that
> changed anything.

[I get that this is just an example, but in this case wouldn't you use
 buffer-modified-tick or buffer-chars-modified-tick instead?]

-- 
Basil





  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-12-20 11:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-11 14:41 bug#45178: buffer-hash docstring should explain difference to secure-hash Stefan Kangas
2020-12-11 16:00 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-11 16:40   ` Stefan Kangas
2020-12-11 16:49     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-11 19:19       ` Stefan Kangas
2020-12-20 11:47       ` Basil L. Contovounesios [this message]
2020-12-20 16:31         ` Stefan Kangas

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