From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: undo: changes outside of visible portion of buffer
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 21:40:14 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877g6lzbcx.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 838ur1h7r1.fsf@gnu.org
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> 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.
I'll take a look, thanks.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-19 13:40 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
2014-04-19 13:40 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
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