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bug#13949: 24.4.1; `fill-paragraph' should not always put the buffer as
From: |
Drew Adams |
Subject: |
bug#13949: 24.4.1; `fill-paragraph' should not always put the buffer as modified |
Date: |
Tue, 22 Mar 2016 11:07:12 -0700 (PDT) |
> > Objection for the following reason:
> > - It's a human who types in and deletes a charter.
> > - fill-paragraph is not a human, but a routine.
>
> I agree. Executing one command that has the effect of (1) not changing
> the buffer and (2) marking the buffer modified makes no sense to the
> user. It makes sense from the viewpoint of the code, but not from the
> viewpoint of the user interface. It is confusing to the user, that's
> not good, so if we could change it, it would be progress, no matter how
> this issue is classified in technical terms.
Yes, _IF_ we can guarantee that there are no differences between
the before and after states, that is, no differences that a user
or Lisp program can discern.
A related question is how to handle certain changes that a user
might be able to detect but that s?he might not want to have
associated with the notion of buffer modification - e.g.,
text-property changes. Currently, all buffer modifications are
handled the same way in terms of reporting/testing whether modified.
- bug#13949: 24.4.1; `fill-paragraph' should not always put the buffer as modified, Jaakov, 2016/03/22
- bug#13949: 24.4.1; `fill-paragraph' should not always put the buffer as modified, Andreas Röhler, 2016/03/22
- bug#13949: 24.4.1; `fill-paragraph' should not always put the buffer as modified, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/22
- bug#13949: 24.4.1; `fill-paragraph' should not always put the buffer as modified, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/22
- bug#13949: 24.4.1; `fill-paragraph' should not always put the buffer as modified, Jaakov, 2016/03/22
- bug#13949: 24.4.1; `fill-paragraph' should not always put the buffer as modified, John Wiegley, 2016/03/26
- bug#13949: 24.4.1; `fill-paragraph' should not always put the buffer as modified, Óscar Fuentes, 2016/03/26
- bug#13949: 24.4.1; `fill-paragraph' should not always put the buffer as modified, Andreas Röhler, 2016/03/27
- bug#13949: 24.4.1; `fill-paragraph' should not always put the buffer as modified, Óscar Fuentes, 2016/03/27
- bug#13949: 24.4.1; `fill-paragraph' should not always put the buffer as modified, Andreas Röhler, 2016/03/28
- bug#13949: 24.4.1; `fill-paragraph' should not always put the buffer as modified, Andreas Schwab, 2016/03/27
- bug#13949: 24.4.1; `fill-paragraph' should not always put the buffer as modified, Óscar Fuentes, 2016/03/27