GNU bug report logs - #13949
24.3.50; `fill-paragraph' should not always put the buffer as modified

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo <at> gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 22:11:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: fixed

Merged with 21155

Found in versions 24.3.50, 24.4.1, 25.0.50

Fixed in version 26.1

Done: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Óscar Fuentes <ofv <at> wanadoo.es>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: John Wiegley <jwiegley <at> gmail.com>, Jaakov <j_k_v <at> ro.ru>, 13949 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13949: 24.4.1; `fill-paragraph' should not always put the buffer as modified
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2016 17:35:23 +0200

Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru> writes:

> Hashes have collisions (and md5 is a bit famous for them). So in
> principle, I don't think using a hash is a good choice in this case.
>
> Either way, you'd have to keep the original string around, to compare
> against if the hashes match.

Dmitry, it would be absolutely glorious if we ever find a md5 collision
among a piece of text and the result of applying fill-paragraph to it. I
would demand to be credited by the feat :-)
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