Re: master e8488bcc9c: Avoid having font locking triggering unnecessary auto-saving

[Stefan Monnier]

Lars Ingebrigtsen [2022-05-09 15:47:43] wrote:
> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>> Well...  would upping auto_save_modified to MODIFF in
>> with-silent-modifications do the trick instead?  (I mean, if
>> recent-auto-save-p was already true when the macro was entered.)  I.e.,
>> reverse which modiff we're twiddling here.
> I.e., have a special value for FLAG that says "update
> BUF_AUTOSAVE_MODIFF to MODIFF" in restore-buffer-modified-p.

Maybe we could make `buffer-modified-p` return `autosaved` rather than
`t` when the buffer is modified but auto-saved, and then
have `restore-buffer-modified-p` accept such a value accordingly, yes.


        Stefan