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| -rw-r--r-- | lispref/files.texi | 5 |
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diff --git a/lispref/files.texi b/lispref/files.texi index 48b63f0e91..199f594955 100644 --- a/lispref/files.texi +++ b/lispref/files.texi @@ -1866,6 +1866,11 @@ Here are the operations that a magic file name handler gets to handle: @code{set-visited-file-modtime}, @code{unhandled-file-name-directory}, @code{verify-visited-file-modtime}, @code{write-region}. +Handlers for @code{insert-file-contents} typically need to clear the +buffer's modified flag, with @code{(set-buffer-modified-p nil)}, if the +@var{visit} argument is non-@code{nil}. This also has the effect of +unlocking the buffer if it is locked. + The handler function must handle all of the above operations, and possibly others to be added in the future. It need not implement all these operations itself---when it has nothing special to do for a |