Re: BUG: indenting lisp code marks buffer as dirty when it shouldn't

[Karl Chen]

    Stefan> Does it really ?  That's odd.  It doesn't for me.  The reason why 
it doesn't
    Stefan> is that the ;; is inside a string, so it doesn't try to reindent it
    Stefan> (Emacs-20.7 behaves as you describe because I doesn't pay attention 
to the
    Stefan> string quotes).
    Stefan> But the problem would appear if you removed the quotes, because the
    Stefan> reindentation would try to reindent the comment and that code is not
    Stefan> careful to modify the text "only if needed".  I'll see how hard it
    Stefan> would be to fix it.

sorry - that's what I meant, insert the text without the quotes. I quoted it
in the bug report because the spaces typed are important.

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