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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: undo: changes outside of visible portion of buffer
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 14:35:30 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <838ur1h7r1.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y4z1zohk.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net>

> From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
> Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 16:56:39 +0800
> 
> > I think "visible" here means the narrowed region, not visible on
> > display.  Do you have any kind of narrowing in that buffer?  If so,
> > try "M-x widen RET".
> 
> After I sent the message I had the same idea, and tried "widen", but it
> didn't do anything. It was an emacs-lisp buffer, other minor modes in
> effect were Magit auto revert, Paredit, ElDoc, Auto Complete, and Undo
> Tree. I don't ever use narrowing manually, and I don't think any of
> those minor modes would have done it automatically, so I don't know what
> was going on. I think you must be right, though, that the error was
> referring to narrowing.

Maybe you should look into those modes and see if they don't impose
narrowing behind your back.



  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-19 11:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-19  8:07 undo: changes outside of visible portion of buffer Eric Abrahamsen
2014-04-19  8:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-04-19  8:56   ` Eric Abrahamsen
2014-04-19 11:35     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2014-04-19 13:40       ` Eric Abrahamsen

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