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>

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From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Óscar Fuentes <ofv <at> wanadoo.es>, 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 18:42:43 +0300

On 03/27/2016 06:28 PM, Óscar Fuentes wrote:

> The docs say:
>
>
>   This shows two dashes (‘--’) if the buffer displayed in the window has
>   the same contents as the corresponding file on the disk; i.e., if the
>   buffer is unmodified.

That might be a documentation bug. Switch to an unmodified buffer. Type 
`a', and then backspace. What do you see in the status?

> AFAIK, a file-visiting buffer is not marked as modified when text
> properties are applied to it.

It is. If you're thinking of font-lock, then it uses 
with-silent-modifications.
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