From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: undo in loaddefs.el buffer Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 01:26:19 +0100 Message-ID: References: <200412211414.iBLEEZ903426@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200412211541.iBLFfBc03861@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1103761711 23047 80.91.229.6 (23 Dec 2004 00:28:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 00:28:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Katsumi Yamaoka , teirllm@dms.auburn.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 23 01:28:24 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ChGq7-00009V-00 for ; Thu, 23 Dec 2004 01:28:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1ChH0h-0005Bi-Dw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Dec 2004 19:39:19 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1ChH0E-0005AW-BJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Dec 2004 19:38:50 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1ChH0B-000590-Ap for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Dec 2004 19:38:47 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1ChH0B-00058O-2o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Dec 2004 19:38:47 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1ChGoA-0002sS-3M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Dec 2004 19:26:22 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1ChGj6-0008KQ-4H; Wed, 22 Dec 2004 19:21:08 -0500 Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Wed, 22 Dec 2004 19:01:19 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:31341 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:31341 Richard Stallman 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