From 6b39501612ac2e932a6f62ca558659007c9b3daa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2016 23:40:42 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Mention with-silent-modifications in the lispref manual * doc/lispref/text.texi (Changing Properties): Document with-silent-modifications (bug#21171). (cherry picked from commit fcd0d854eef6e439d51e8f07cf734d5e34e502b3) --- doc/lispref/text.texi | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/lispref/text.texi b/doc/lispref/text.texi index ab55c2037d7..96f109b7561 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/text.texi +++ b/doc/lispref/text.texi @@ -2963,6 +2963,11 @@ construct each part with @code{propertize} and then combine them with @code{buffer-substring-no-properties}, which copies text from the buffer but does not copy its properties. +@findex with-silent-modifications + If you wish to add or remove text properties to a buffer without +marking the buffer as modified, you can wrap the calls above in the +@code{with-silent-modifications} macro. + @node Property Search @subsection Text Property Search Functions @cindex searching text properties -- 2.39.2