From: JD Smith <jdtsmith@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: buffer-modified-tick and text properties
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2024 11:11:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DFDF3C42-C607-4D84-8481-A5E7B80873ED@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86r0f086t5.fsf@gnu.org>
> On Apr 20, 2024, at 10:09 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>> From: JD Smith <jdtsmith@gmail.com>
>> Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2024 08:47:42 -0400
>>
>> I had hoped to compare a saved and current buffer-modified-tick in a post-command-hook, to tell me whether
>> the command that lead to it had modified the buffer text, but this is not a reliable way to do so when text
>> properties are being changed as a result of non-edit commands (like motion).
>
> If you want to know only about changes to characters, perhaps
> buffer-chars-modified-tick is a better function to use?
Missed this function; it should work perfectly, thanks. I wonder, aside from text properties, are there any other changes within the buffer that cause buffer-modified-tick but not buffer-chars-modified-tick to be incremented?
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2024-04-20 12:47 buffer-modified-tick and text properties JD Smith
2024-04-20 14:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-04-20 15:11 ` JD Smith [this message]
2024-04-20 16:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
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