Subject: Re: bug#14943: 24.3.50; Now just making text invisible locks the file for editing

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 03:48:10 -0800

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

>> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
>> Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2014 21:23:55 -0800
>> Cc: [email-masked]
>> 
>> Yeah, adding text properties to a buffer marks it as changed (which is
>> correct, I guess).  But is that really useful for buffers that
>> correspond to files?
>
> How can Emacs know whether these text properties will or won't be
> saved on disk?  That depends on the major mode: e.g., in enhanced-text
> mode, they will be on disk.

True.  I think just leaving it as is is the most likely general
solution.  Closing.

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