From: Noel Taylor <noeltaylo@gmail.com>
To: Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs undo behavior frustrating for new users.
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2018 01:11:08 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <EFC06187-AF8B-4001-878C-62D872E9B261@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874ldnajq7.fsf@red-bean.com>
> On Oct 14, 2018, at 11:59 PM, Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com> wrote:
>
> Noel, want to try binding `undo-only' to replace your normal `undo` keybindings and see if that provides a behavior that seems more natural to you?
Haha not really at this point. I would have loved to in my first few months of using emacs, but by now I don't think it will feel any more natural to me now than it would to you.
> (And see how much you miss not having `undo-redo'... That probably wouldn't be very hard to implement, but I'm conspicuously not volunteering until we have a sense of how badly it would be missed by someone who is accustomed to having it.)
Ah but I'm long past being accustomed to having it now. If I tried to do my job using the MS Word style undo I'm sure that for me personally - it would be more a hindrance than a help. Such a change could well be useful to new emacs users, but I'm no longer one of those.
But I'm still very glad to learn that "undo-only" exists! Thank you, Stefan for pointing that out. And I will try it out at some point - probably not when I'm using emacs for work though.
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Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-08 3:49 delete-selection-mode as default (WAS: Some developement questions) Bingo
2018-09-08 7:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-08 8:33 ` Bingo
2018-09-08 9:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-09 13:13 ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-09-09 14:53 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-09 15:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-09 17:59 ` Ergus
2018-09-09 19:12 ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-09-09 22:33 ` Ergus
2018-09-09 23:34 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-11 4:22 ` Richard Stallman
2018-10-14 16:07 ` Emacs undo behavior frustrating for new users. (WAS: delete-selection-mode as default) Karl Fogel
2018-10-14 18:42 ` Emacs undo behavior frustrating for new users Stefan Monnier
2018-10-15 4:59 ` Karl Fogel
2018-10-15 6:11 ` Noel Taylor [this message]
2018-10-15 5:43 ` Emacs undo behavior frustrating for new users. (WAS: delete-selection-mode as default) Richard Stallman
2018-10-15 7:28 ` Van L
2018-10-16 6:44 ` Richard Stallman
2018-10-17 10:09 ` Nathan Moreau
2018-10-17 10:38 ` Emacs undo behavior frustrating for new users Andreas Schwab
2018-10-18 7:23 ` Richard Stallman
2018-10-17 12:00 ` Garreau, Alexandre
2018-10-17 14:05 ` Nathan Moreau
2018-10-17 14:20 ` Garreau, Alexandre
2018-10-17 14:33 ` Yuri Khan
2018-10-17 16:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-10-18 7:23 ` Richard Stallman
2018-10-15 8:26 ` Emacs undo behavior frustrating for new users. (WAS: delete-selection-mode as default) Yuri Khan
2018-10-16 6:44 ` Richard Stallman
2018-10-16 7:22 ` Yuri Khan
2018-10-17 7:05 ` Richard Stallman
2018-10-20 8:15 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-10-20 18:33 ` Elias Mårtenson
2018-10-15 7:54 ` Joost Kremers
2018-10-15 9:27 ` Joost Kremers
2018-10-15 12:01 ` Emacs undo behavior frustrating for new users Óscar Fuentes
2018-10-15 13:28 ` Joost Kremers
2018-10-16 12:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-10-17 7:05 ` Richard Stallman
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