Subject: Re: bug#2295: Viewing images with image-mode changes directory time

From: Juri Linkov <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:49:52 +0200

>> As a solution I propose to let-bind `buffer-file-truename' to nil
>> around the call to `add-text-properties' to prevent directory time
>> modification:
>
> That sounds OK.  We should provide at least a macro for that.

Maybe it would be better (after the release) to improve
`add-text-properties' to not modify the current buffer
(with a new flag to keep the default behavior unchanged).
This is an old problem with buffers that don't save text properties,
so modifying them is meaningless and sometimes harmful.

> BTW, while you're there, change set-buffer-modified-p to
> restore-buffer-modified-p.

Done.

-- 
Juri Linkov
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