Re: Confusion about first-change-hook

[Stefan Monnier]

> Oh. I didn't know that putting text properties on an unmodified buffer
> should be protected like that. I guess I will have to look at some of my
> own packages...

Many packages do part of what with-silent-modifications does, such as
save buffer-modified-p and restore it afterwards, but that is only
sufficient in some cases (as seen in your particular case).
`with-silent-modifications' takes care of several more potential
problems.


        Stefan