* lisp/dired.el (dired-readin): Improve comment

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Stefan Monnier 2020-03-31 12:11:26 -04:00
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@ -1226,10 +1226,10 @@ wildcards, erases the buffer, and builds the subdir-alist anew
;; We used to bind `inhibit-modification-hooks' to try and speed up
;; execution, in particular, to prevent the font-lock hook from running
;; until the directory is all read in.
;; I strongly suspect that this was only useful in Emacs<21, because
;; jit-lock made it a non-issue.
;; Nevertheless, I used `combine-change-calls' which provides the
;; same performance advantages, just in case.
;; It's not clear why font-lock would be a significant issue
;; here, but I used `combine-change-calls' which should provide the
;; same performance advantages without the problem of breaking
;; users of after/before-change-functions.
(combine-change-calls (point-min) (point-max)
(let ((inhibit-read-only t)
;; Don't make undo entries for readin.