bug#11303: Whitespace mode causes auto-save to malfunction

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Kelly Dean <kellydeanch@yahoo.com> writes:

> Notice that Emacs does write the auto-save file
> again, even though the buffer hasn't changed since the last
> auto-save. This is not the correct behavior.

I've now fixed this in Emacs 29.  The problem wasn't limited to
whitespace mode, but all modes that do font locking.

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