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From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: lennart.borgman@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: The *Warnings* buffer and undo
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:18:04 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <df4po21qxf.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1HXGQz-0004qD-TF@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Fri, 30 Mar 2007 08:42:25 -0400")

Richard Stallman wrote:

>     work out.  The best that a program could do in this regard is set
>     buffer-undo-list to t before doing its changes, and to nil afterwards.
>
> That sounds like a good solution -- better than suppressing undo 100%
> in that buffer.

Can we just leave this alone for Emacs 22? There is no actual problem
we are trying to fix, other than the general sentiment that changes
produced by display-warning should not be undoable. I don't see any
harm in the current behaviour, and there seems to be no good, simple
solution.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-30 19:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-24 20:01 The *Warnings* buffer and undo Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-03-25 17:27 ` Richard Stallman
2007-03-28  0:47   ` Glenn Morris
2007-03-28 19:36     ` David Kastrup
2007-03-28 20:52       ` Glenn Morris
2007-03-29 17:59       ` Richard Stallman
2007-03-29 18:35         ` David Kastrup
2007-03-30 12:42           ` Richard Stallman
2007-03-30 19:18             ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2007-03-30 19:53               ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-03-31  7:20                 ` Richard Stallman
2007-03-31 19:41                   ` Glenn Morris
2007-03-31 23:21                     ` Richard Stallman
2007-03-29 22:07         ` Miles Bader
2007-03-30 21:23           ` Richard Stallman
2007-03-30 21:45             ` Glenn Morris
2007-03-30 22:50             ` Miles Bader
2007-03-31 20:43               ` Richard Stallman
2007-04-01  0:22                 ` Miles Bader
2007-04-01  0:44                   ` Miles Bader
2007-03-29 15:32     ` Richard Stallman

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