Re: Unbalanced change hooks (part 2) [Documentation fix still remaining]

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 17:49:30 +0000
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> From: Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden>
> 
> > It's too complicated to describe that.  We would need to describe some
> > internal aspects of the implementation in great detail.  I don't see
> > that as worth our while.
> 
> I can't see the difference between your last paragraph and saying it's
> totally arbitrary.  If the only way to categorise it is to say "look at
> the source code" that's arbitrary.
> 
> It can not be a good thing for the call to before-change-functions to be
> missed out arbitrarily.

It's not arbitrary.  But describing when we don't call the
before-change hooks would first need to describe the various parts of
some buffer modifications, because otherwise you'd be unable to
understand which part does and which doesn't call them.