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

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 13949 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#13949: 24.3.50;
	`fill-paragraph' should not always put the buffer as modified
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 05:43:13 +0200

> Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 23:09:35 +0100
> From: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo <at> gmail.com>
> 
> 1. Visit some plain text file.
> 2. Move point to some paragraph with more that one line.
> 3. M-q C-x C-s
> 4. M-q
> 
> After step #3, the buffer is not modified wrt its file (you've just
> save it), but step #4 puts the buffer in a modified state ("**" flag
> in the modeline).
> 
> This seems a bug, since step #4 didn't make any change in the buffer
> contents (the paragraph was already filled).

Step #4 does change the buffer, because M-q doesn't know whether the
paragraph is already filled, so it fills it anew each time.

Emacs always behaved like that.
This bug report was last modified 8 years and 166 days ago.

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