Re: Exposing buffer text modifications to Lisp

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hello, Ihor.

On Mon, Jun 20, 2022 at 19:58:31 +0800, Ihor Radchenko wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

[ .... ]

> > If you already have a workaround for marker-related problems, then why
> > do you need to hook into insertion and deletion on the lowest level?

> Because the workaround relies on before/after-change-functions that may
> be suppressed by bad third-party code.

Why is that your (or our) problem?  Code which isn't the major mode
masking out the change functions is just invalid code.  Can't you just
document somewhere that before/after-change-functions are an essential
part of Org Mode, and that messing around with them will lead to
unpredictable results?

[ .... ]

> Best,
> Ihor

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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).