Function: buffer-modified-tick

buffer-modified-tick is a function defined in buffer.c.

Signature

(buffer-modified-tick &optional BUFFER)

Documentation

Return BUFFER's tick counter, incremented for each change in text.

Each buffer has a tick counter which is incremented each time the text in that buffer is changed. No argument or nil as argument means use current buffer as BUFFER.

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Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 22.1.

Source Code

// Defined in /usr/src/emacs/src/buffer.c
{
  return modiff_to_integer (BUF_MODIFF (decode_buffer (buffer)));
}