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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Subject: Re: term.el and undo
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 14:59:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87brgzml03.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <x51xhv1w6h.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "25 Aug 2004 10:03:34 +0200")

* David Kastrup:

> However, since the whole point of term is to provide an
> ncurses-capable terminal, and since undo or any other output or cursor
> movement operation not initiated from the device writing into the
> pseudotty would lead to a discrepancy between the screen contents and
> the application's expectations, _any_ editing by the user including
> undo would seem completely pointless.

Minor nitpick: In *line* *mode*, undo does make sense, because the
application doesn't see any data before the user presses RET.  (Line
mode is the default mode, and typically it supports limited line
editing via ^H, ^W and ^U.)

  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-25 12:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-22 23:39 term.el and undo Richard Stallman
2004-08-23  1:43 ` undo in compilation mode Karl Chen
2004-08-23 23:26   ` Richard Stallman
2004-08-23 23:32     ` Florian Weimer
2004-08-24 21:02       ` Richard Stallman
2004-08-24 23:25         ` Karl Chen
2004-08-24  2:08     ` Stefan
2004-08-24 14:50       ` Karl Chen
2004-08-25  4:41         ` Richard Stallman
2004-08-24 20:13 ` term.el and undo Mark Plaksin
2004-08-25  4:41   ` Richard Stallman
2004-08-25  8:03     ` David Kastrup
2004-08-25 12:59       ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2004-08-25 20:25         ` Mark Plaksin
2004-08-25 22:40       ` Richard Stallman

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