bug#4597: Antwort: Re: bug#4587: 23.1; sort-lines and sort-fields always set buffer modified

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Roland.Meier@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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