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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Message #212 received at 13949 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Óscar Fuentes <ofv <at> wanadoo.es>
Cc: 13949 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Subject: Re: bug#13949: 24.4.1;
 `fill-paragraph' should not always put the buffer as modified
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2016 17:57:17 +0200

Óscar Fuentes <ofv <at> wanadoo.es> 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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