From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: 23685-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Subject: bug#23685: Emacs 25.0.94.1; Undo is clumping together delete-forward-char commands from distant parts of the buffer.
Date: 3 Jun 2016 13:49:47 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160603134947.43637.qmail@mail.muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.733.1464905650.1216.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
This isn't a bug, so closing.
The problems below only occur in some (undetermined) circumstances,
possibly when edebug is active.
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
In article <mailman.733.1464905650.1216.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> you wrote:
> Hello, Emacs.
> I'm using Emacs 25.0.94.1, built as follows:
> In GNU Emacs 25.0.94.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.18.7)
> of 2016-05-24 built on acm
> Repository revision: 2671179b11a9423792aaf2439a26a2562679c086
> Configured using:
> 'configure --with-tiff=no --with-gif=no --with-gpm'
> Configured features:
> XPM JPEG PNG RSVG SOUND GPM DBUS GSETTINGS NOTIFY ACL GNUTLS LIBXML2
> FREETYPE XFT ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK3 X11
> I have the following in a buffer:
> ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
> #define FOO(bar) char bar [] = R"bar(bar)bar"
> char baz [] = R"baz(baz)foo";
> ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
> I delete the "a" from Line 1 col 34 with `delete-forward-char' (bound to
> the <deletechar> key). Then I move to Line 3, and likewise delete the
> "o" in column 25.
> Now I attempt to undo the last deletion with C-_. Maddeningly, this
> undoes both of the two last disjoint deletions. It appears to be
> impossible to undo only the last of these deletions. This has caused me
> some inconvenience in testing. There is no customizable option by which
> this irritating behaviour can be disabled. It is surely a bug.
> I can understand coalescing a sequence of undos in the same place, much
> as consecutive `self-insert-command's are coalesced into a single group
> for undo. However, coalescing two deletions separated by movement
> commands into a single undo group is going too far.
> Can we possibly have a rethink on this before Emacs 25 goes out?
> --
> Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
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