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Re: Don't complain about changed file when it hasn't changed


From: Clément Pit--Claudel
Subject: Re: Don't complain about changed file when it hasn't changed
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 11:23:31 -0400
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On 2016-08-30 11:01, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> Also, why not just introduce a function buffer-min, instead of the
>>  (save-restriction) + (widen) dance?
> 
> We could, yes.
> 
> Note that it wouldn't help us in the present case, since we will look
> (via compare-buffer-substring) at the whole buffer's text, so we need to
> widen anyway.

I see, thanks! I didn't realize that these functions needed widening. Its 
documentation doesn't seem to mention it, nor its docstring. What about the 
attached patch?


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