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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>,
	teirllm@dms.auburn.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: undo in loaddefs.el buffer
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 01:26:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <x5sm5x97x0.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1ChGPv-00067q-GM@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Wed, 22 Dec 2004 19:01:19 -0500")

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

> So I think batch-update-autoloads is the right place to do something
> about this problem.
>
> 4. Another idea is that batch mode could always turn off undo.  That
> is a little drastic as a change, but what do people think of it?

It depends just on how undo gets turned off.  There are cases where
editing operations are done by making use of undo (X-Symbol does some
sort of association by doing a one-way conversion, placing markers at
positions matched with a string, then undoing everything to see where
the markers end up).  However, those operations will set relevant
variables (in this case, setting undo-limit to most-positive-fixnum,
for example) normally.  undo-outer-limit, however, is new...

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

  reply	other threads:[~2004-12-23  0:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-21 14:14 undo in loaddefs.el buffer Luc Teirlinck
2004-12-21 15:41 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-12-22  4:31   ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2004-12-22  4:58     ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2004-12-23  0:01     ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-23  0:26       ` David Kastrup [this message]
2004-12-25 15:13         ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-24  1:45     ` Juri Linkov
2004-12-24 21:39       ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-12-26  9:14         ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-27  5:29           ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-12-27 22:35             ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-24 23:59       ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-12-25 15:12       ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-26  2:06         ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-12-26  2:32           ` Juri Linkov
2004-12-26  3:59             ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-12-27  2:40             ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-12-27 20:16               ` Juri Linkov
2004-12-28  4:57                 ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-27  4:09             ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-26 16:15           ` Jan D.
2004-12-27  2:31             ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-12-27 10:21               ` Jan D.
2004-12-27 11:05                 ` Jan D.
2004-12-27 22:35                 ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-28 13:16                   ` Jan D.
2004-12-28 20:57                     ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-29 12:59                       ` Jan D.
2004-12-28  5:03                 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-12-28 17:25                   ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-29  2:07                     ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-12-29 20:46                       ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-30  1:14                         ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-12-30 16:43                           ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-31  1:54                             ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-12-31  9:22                               ` David Kastrup
2004-12-31 15:04                                 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-01-01  5:25                                   ` Richard Stallman
2005-01-02 16:02                                     ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-01-03  0:58                                       ` Richard Stallman
2005-01-04  3:07                                         ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-01-04 17:00                                           ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-31  2:14                             ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-12-30  5:06                     ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-12-30 20:58                       ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-27 18:05             ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-27 19:33               ` Jan D.
2004-12-28  4:57                 ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-28  8:11                   ` Jan D.
2004-12-28 21:05                 ` Jason Rumney
2004-12-29 23:22                   ` Jan D.
2004-12-27  4:09           ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-27  4:42             ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-12-26  2:43         ` Juri Linkov
2004-12-27  4:09           ` Richard Stallman
2005-01-04  9:05     ` Juri Linkov
2004-12-21 21:57 ` Kevin Rodgers
2004-12-22  0:17   ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-12-22  0:17 ` Richard Stallman

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