From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to disable undo recording within a defun? Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2021 13:54:40 +0200 Message-ID: <87wnnata7z.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <1511127682.419039.1631642669435.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <1511127682.419039.1631642669435@mail.yahoo.com> <87v9333u36.fsf@telefonica.net> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="23144"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:tq+etSzTqG1WSYWTu9gLljWcGMY= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 21 13:55:53 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mSeNN-0005mn-T9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 21 Sep 2021 13:55:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40202 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mSeNL-0000yK-TS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 21 Sep 2021 07:55:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:56120) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mSeMQ-0000vG-1D for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Sep 2021 07:54:54 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:53376) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mSeMN-0001ul-FQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Sep 2021 07:54:52 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mSeML-0004Ns-0O for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Sep 2021 13:54:49 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:133132 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor wrote: > It's very unusual to disable recording undo, and it is > usually problematic because the undo-records before and > after the chunk you want to skip can't be used together > unless the chunk you skip ends up doing "nothing". Reminds me of world-finance.el where you can transfer huge sums of money yet do some handy "undoing" in the middle and most often people are so ignorant and busy anyway mostly up to no good they don't notice the missing billion in between all the same ... -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal