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* Re: master 8a7db868cc: Add NEWS entry about incompatible sorting command behaviors
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@ 2022-05-04  0:24   ` Po Lu
  2022-05-04  7:52     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Po Lu @ 2022-05-04  0:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-devel; +Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> +---
> +** Sorting commands no longer necessarily change modification status.
> +In earlier Emacs versions, commands like 'M-x sort-lines' would always
> +change buffer modification status to "modified", whether they changed
> +something in the buffer or not.  This has been changed: The buffer is
> +marked as modified only if the sorting ended up changing the contents
> +of the buffer.

I doubt this is an "incompatible change", it's more of an improvement to
an existing feature.



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* Re: master 8a7db868cc: Add NEWS entry about incompatible sorting command behaviors
  2022-05-04  0:24   ` master 8a7db868cc: Add NEWS entry about incompatible sorting command behaviors Po Lu
@ 2022-05-04  7:52     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Lars Ingebrigtsen @ 2022-05-04  7:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Po Lu; +Cc: emacs-devel

Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:

> I doubt this is an "incompatible change", it's more of an improvement to
> an existing feature.

It's marginal, but `M-x sort-lines' has reliably ended up with a buffer
that needs saving for four decades, so you can be sure that somebody's
used that somewhere in their work flow.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no



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