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 11:41:09 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83bnvxhftm.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mwfh3fpd.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net>
> From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
> Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 16:07:26 +0800
>
> I'm trying to undo a fairly large chunk of text deletion, and emacs is
> telling me:
>
> undo-more: Changes to be undone are outside visible portion of buffer
>
> I get this no matter where I scroll in the buffer -- it's only about
> three screenfuls. I had undo-tree-mode active when I did the deletion,
> but I get the same error whether it's active or no.
>
> I'd like this text back, and I don't care if it's not visible! I can't
> find any switches that might allow me to circumvent the error -- what
> options do I have here?
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".
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-19 8:41 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 [this message]
2014-04-19 8:56 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2014-04-19 11:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-04-19 13:40 ` Eric Abrahamsen
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