bug#21155: 25.0.50; Buffer is unconditionally marked modified by ‘fill-paragraph’

[Mark Karpov]

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I've noticed that ‘fill-paragraph’ marks buffer modified even if it
hasn't done anything at all, that is, the paragraph is already
“filled”. I think it's a bit counter-intuitive.

For example, if I want to make sure that a paragraph is filled, I press
‘M-q’ and even if it had no effect I would need to eventually re-save
the file or undo the operation.

This is not a major problem, of course.

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In GNU Emacs 25.0.50.15 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.16.5)
 of 2015-07-18 on arch
Repository revision: eed81d277f5f095399611d52b4ff814622d44f1c
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11702000
Configured features:
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NOTIFY ACL GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE M17N_FLT LIBOTF XFT ZLIB
TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK3 X11

Important settings:
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix

Major mode: δ

Minor modes in effect:
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  auto-compression-mode: t
  buffer-read-only: t
  column-number-mode: t
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  transient-mark-mode: t
  auto-fill-mode: 1

Recent messages:
scroll-up-command: End of buffer
Truncate long lines enabled
scroll-up-command: End of buffer
next-line: End of buffer
Saving file 
/home/mark/projects/programs/megaparsec/Text/MegaParsec/Combinator.hs...
Wrote /home/mark/projects/programs/megaparsec/Text/MegaParsec/Combinator.hs
Saving file 
/home/mark/projects/programs/megaparsec/Text/MegaParsec/Combinator.hs...
Wrote /home/mark/projects/programs/megaparsec/Text/MegaParsec/Combinator.hs
Quit
Type "q" in help window to restore its previous buffer.

Load-path shadows:
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