Re: Text Properties And Buffer Modification

[Stefan Monnier]

>> > Don't forget that the modified status is important for more than
>> > just saving to a file: it is important for redisplaying the
>> > buffer, for example.
>> Really?
> Is that a rhetorical question?

Not at all.  I know that set-buffer-modified-p has historically been
linked to force-mode-line-update, but other than that I had no idea that
the ticks would affect redisplay in any significant way (beside the
obvious stars in the mode-line, obviously).

I'm still not clear why either.


        Stefan