Subject: Re: bug#13949: 24.4.1; `fill-paragraph' should not always put the buffer as modified

From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2016 17:57:17 +0200

Óscar Fuentes <[email-masked]> writes:

> When you type `a', you changed the buffer. Checking that your subsequent
> actions gives a result that is identical to the saved file is something
> that would be nice to have, but I guess that few users would think that
> it is a reasonable requirement.

I think that would be a very nice feature, though.  Like, if Emacs
computed the hash of the buffer when you loaded it, and then checks
again every time you edit something, and uses that for the "buffer
changed" marker.  :-)

It's probably unrealistically slow, though.

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