Re: [emacs-bidi] Re: improving bidi documents display

"Martin J. D=C3=BCrst" <[email protected]> writes:
>> Overlay, not text property.  The latter modifies the buffer, which is
>> not what you want in this case.
>
> Just a factual question: What does it mean when you say that
> properties modify the buffer?

Adding/changing text properties marks the buffer as "modified."

One can avoid that effect by using the `with-silent-modifications' macro.

-Miles

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