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: Jaakov <j_k_v <at> ro.ru>
To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>, Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: Óscar Fuentes <ofv <at> wanadoo.es>, John Wiegley <jwiegley <at> gmail.com>, 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 18:08:16 +0200

> It's less likely that the before/after `M-q' strings hash to the same
> md5 than cosmic rays reprogramming your Emacs into vi, so:

Users' texts are not completely random, but highly correlated. 
Therefore, the argument about unlikeliness (which might hold for 
equidistributed texts, for each length) does not apply.

If the above patch stays upstream, I'm going to switch from emacs to 
something else and advise others to do so. Really.

Please don't cc me any more.
This bug report was last modified 8 years and 166 days ago.

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