From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm)
To: ishikawa <chiaki.ishikawa@ubin.jp>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: A new(?) warning of erase-buffer, which was not seen before.
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:19:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3ps75whmh.fsf@kfs-l.imdomain.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45FDF35F.6030605@ubin.jp> (ishikawa's message of "Mon\, 19 Mar 2007 11\:20\:15 +0900")
ishikawa <chiaki.ishikawa@ubin.jp> writes:
> Hi,
>
> When I ran "erase-buffer" on a buffer named "*sim*", I got
> the following warning, which I didn't get with older version of Emacs.
>
> Is this warning an intentional one?
Yes.
> In the old emacs version(s), it used to be that erase-buffer intentionally
> discarded undo information if I recall correctly.
I just checked, and no version of GNU Emacs since 1991 has done that
(I didn't check older versions).
> The buffer in question, namely
> "*sim*", contained
> a voluminous output of a running simulator program and I simply want to
> throw away the contents from time to time. And thus, undo is not necessary
> for this buffer.
So disable undo in that buffer.
--
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk> http://www.cua.dk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-19 12:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-19 2:20 A new(?) warning of erase-buffer, which was not seen before ishikawa
2007-03-19 12:19 ` Kim F. Storm [this message]
2007-03-20 3:48 ` ishikawa
2007-03-20 9:42 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-03-22 11:08 ` ishikawa
2007-03-22 22:50 ` Richard Stallman
2007-03-22 23:21 ` Miles Bader
2007-03-23 9:47 ` ishikawa
2007-03-23 14:52 ` Davis Herring
2007-03-23 9:54 ` Johan Bockgård
2007-03-23 11:31 ` Miles Bader
2007-03-23 12:56 ` Johan Bockgård
2007-03-23 16:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-03-23 17:01 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-03-23 17:35 ` martin rudalics
2007-03-24 2:41 ` Miles Bader
2007-03-24 9:09 ` martin rudalics
2007-03-19 18:10 ` Richard Stallman
2007-03-20 3:52 ` ishikawa
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