From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Text Properties And Buffer Modification Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2018 15:54:08 -0500 Message-ID: References: <83y3948ov2.fsf@gnu.org> <87wooofnqf.fsf@fastmail.fm> <83o9a08jfq.fsf@gnu.org> <834lbr95nq.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1544043168 19930 195.159.176.226 (5 Dec 2018 20:52:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2018 20:52:48 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 05 21:52:44 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gUeA0-00055D-1v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Dec 2018 21:52:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36776 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gUeC6-0005bb-5V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Dec 2018 15:54:54 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55356) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gUeBT-0005bW-Tg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Dec 2018 15:54:16 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gUeBO-0004Ec-Vc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Dec 2018 15:54:15 -0500 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]:35544) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gUeBO-0004Cw-P0; Wed, 05 Dec 2018 15:54:10 -0500 Original-Received: from pastel.home (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.7/8.14.1) with ESMTP id wB5Ks8Ok025688; Wed, 5 Dec 2018 15:54:08 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 89C3D6AA38; Wed, 5 Dec 2018 15:54:08 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <834lbr95nq.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 05 Dec 2018 20:42:33 +0200") X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 2 Rules triggered EDT_SA_DN_PASS=0, RV6433=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9418 : core <6433> : inlines <6979> : streams <1806276> : uri <2760648> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.20 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:231654 Archived-At: >> > Don't forget that the modified status is important for more than >> > just saving to a file: it is important for redisplaying the >> > buffer, for example. >> Really? > Is that a rhetorical question? Not at all. I know that set-buffer-modified-p has historically been linked to force-mode-line-update, but other than that I had no idea that the ticks would affect redisplay in any significant way (beside the obvious stars in the mode-line, obviously). I'm still not clear why either. Stefan