Re: Exposing buffer text modifications to Lisp

[Ihor Radchenko]

Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:

> 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?

It is indeed possible. However, this particular issue can cause data
loss in user files. Which I'd prefer to avoid at all costs.

Best,
Ihor