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: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: Óscar Fuentes <ofv <at> wanadoo.es>, 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 17:50:58 +0200

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

> And yet, why would we allow such possibility? String comparison is
> plenty fast already.

Comparison is fast, but making a copy of a buffer (or its contents)
isn't.  (If the buffer is large, that is.)  If you've loaded a 2GB file
and hit `M-q' on a line, it would be rather awkward if that made Emacs
allocate an additional 2GB of data.

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