GNU bug report logs - #4587
23.1; sort-lines and sort-fields always set buffer modified

Previous Next

Package: emacs;

Reported by: rm369 <at> arcor.de

Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:50:04 UTC

Severity: minor

Merged with 4597

Fixed in version 29.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

Full log

Message #10 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: rm369 <at> arcor.de
Cc: 4587 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#4587: 23.1; sort-lines and sort-fields always set buffer modified
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:44:07 -0400

> M-x sort-lines and M-x sort-fields always set the buffer modified
> status ("-" -> "*" in column 5 of the status line), even if the region
> was sorted and the command did not modify anything.

Indeed.  The same holds true for fill-paragraph.

> An unmodified buffer should stay unmodified if nothing was changed.
> Reproduction:

Yes, that's generally desirable.  But in the above cases, given the way
the code currently works, it's fairly inconvenient to do (the code does
modify the buffer, it just so happens that the end text is the same as
the original text), so it doesn't seem worth the trouble.


        Stefan
This bug report was last modified 3 years and 75 days ago.

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.