On Sun, Feb 20, 2022 at 07:51:43PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> 
> Le 18/02/2022 à 17:18, Scott Kostyshak a écrit :
> > In whatever part of LyX's code that marks a buffer as dirty, should we
> > assert that the document is not read-only?
> > 
> > If I open the User Guide from the Help menu, editing is disabled. But if I 
> > run:
> > 
> >    command-sequence inset-forall Caption char-delete-forward; statistics; 
> > undo
> > 
> > The buffer is marked as dirty. I'm not sure if something actually
> > changed, but I wonder if a general way to catch these types of issues is
> > to add an assertion. But perhaps there are some cases where it is hard
> > to know if the buffer is dirty (maybe with Undo?) so we mark it as dirty
> > just in case?
> 
> Actually, the buffer is marked dirty when a recordUndo happens.
> 
> Several things come to mind:
> 1/ in LFUN_BUFFER_FORALL, we do a recordUndo before dispatching each
> command. There is no reason for that IMO (it was my doing, but there are no
> explanations).
> 2/ all undo operations should be no-ops when buffer is read-only (unless I
> am missing something important).
> 
> 1/ is done at 48ee2fd0,
> 2/ is done at bfe98181.
> 
> Hope I did not overlook something.

Thanks!
Scott

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