Re: A new user perspective about "Changes for emacs 28"

[Ergus <spacibba@aol.com>]

One thing at the time. Having an alternative to traditional undo that
could be enabled with one of the profiles we were discussing before or
throw an option in the menubar is (in my opinion) a good first step.

If we decide in the future to improve that with visualization or any
other fancy option it is orthogonal to this change as that can be
customized with a simple option (maybe (setq undo-redo-visualize t) ;p)

On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 01:29:42PM +0200, Arthur Miller wrote:
>Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> writes:
>
>> As you can see from the recent messages, a lot of users prefer undo-tree or even
>> undo-only+undo-redo rather than the default undo.
>Yes, but as I understand the situtaion a lot of users, usually those
>that are new to Emacs does not get at the start how Emacs undo works,
>and they resort to something simpler they are familiar with.
>
>That is why I suggested to start talking about non-destructive text
>editing to emphasize more on how undo feature in Emacs works. I see no
>problems with having to different undo-mechanisms either, the original
>one, and one simpler. Simpler could work as people are used from other
>applications and could be default, and could be disabled by setting some
>nil value for some variable so experienced user can use original undo.
>
>Undo tree as a visualisation is very cool feature, and could be one of
>unique Emacs features, if it could visualise any undo/redo history. I
>don't use undo-tree myself, but I think that graphical representation of
>undo history is a cool even if mostly gimmicky.
>