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authorLars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>2016-04-30 23:34:29 +0200
committerLars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>2016-05-01 19:27:16 +0200
commit9722ae18c3aa7243185fb005241f337712ac0ac5 (patch)
tree71aa094a9a6adc909af62cfca0b46a9c02f40593
parent3bc26a7080a1394a65f614b1b398af3f851eefd7 (diff)
downloademacs-9722ae18c3aa7243185fb005241f337712ac0ac5.tar.gz
with-silent-modifications doc clarification
* lisp/subr.el (with-silent-modifications): Rearrange the doc string a bit so that the most pertinent information is at the top (bug#21171). (cherry picked from commit e0e70f030e69d9696a963a86f5f7caaff4df06eb)
-rw-r--r--lisp/subr.el7
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/subr.el b/lisp/subr.el
index 23e7d01e6de..3f5d6e427e9 100644
--- a/lisp/subr.el
+++ b/lisp/subr.el
@@ -3291,6 +3291,8 @@ See also `with-temp-file' and `with-output-to-string'."
(defmacro with-silent-modifications (&rest body)
"Execute BODY, pretending it does not modify the buffer.
+This macro is Typically used around modifications of
+text-properties which do not really affect the buffer's content.
If BODY performs real modifications to the buffer's text, other
than cosmetic ones, undo data may become corrupted.
@@ -3298,10 +3300,7 @@ This macro will run BODY normally, but doesn't count its buffer
modifications as being buffer modifications. This affects things
like `buffer-modified-p', checking whether the file is locked by
someone else, running buffer modification hooks, and other things
-of that nature.
-
-Typically used around modifications of text-properties which do
-not really affect the buffer's content."
+of that nature."
(declare (debug t) (indent 0))
(let ((modified (make-symbol "modified")))
`(let* ((,modified (buffer-modified-p))