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Antwort: Re: bug#4587: 23.1; sort-lines and sort-fields always set buffer modified

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Roland.Meier <at> continental-corporation.com
Cc: 4587 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rm369 <at> arcor.de, 4597 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#4597: Antwort: Re: bug#4587: 23.1; sort-lines and sort-fields always set buffer modified
Date: Tue, 03 May 2022 21:24:09 +0200

Roland.Meier <at> continental-corporation.com writes:

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

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't resolved
at the time.)

I've now fixed this in Emacs 29.

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