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From: David <emacs-newbie@hj.proberto.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to end text-insert undo segment after cursor jump (caused by mouse)? [SOLVED]
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2020 23:00:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b1bc40c6c3bac5f757221ace0d7c9327@mail.vmaly.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv5z78o5p9.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>

Hey Stefan, thanks for your help!

You were absolutely right, the issue was caused by evil layer. Your 
solution to set evil-want-fine-undo worked perfectly!

I went to emacs customization interface for this variable, I set it to 
Yes (non-nil) and clicked "Apply and Save" and voila, from that moment 
on I was able to undo up until the problematic point and the undo action 
no longer grouped everything between start and end of insert command, 
but recognized piece-wise undo segments.

Thanks again and have a great day,

David

On 2020-10-18 00:34, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> How to end text-insert undo segment after cursor jump (caused by 
>> mouse)?
> 
> Note that the behavior you describe comes from code in Evil.  The way
> undo steps are divided in non-Evil Emacs is different (mostly, finer
> grained).
> 
> More specifically, I believe that if you perform the `undo` *before* 
> you
> finish your insertion (i.e. before hitting ESC), you should get (more 
> or
> less) the behavior you want, i.e. the cursor jump due to your mouse
> event will indeed have ended an undo sequence.  Evil then collapses
> those undo steps into a single one when you leave insertion mode.
> 
> In any case, maybe setting `evil-want-fine-undo` will also do the 
> trick.
> 
> 
>         Stefan



      reply	other threads:[~2020-10-19 21:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-17 17:35 How to end text-insert undo segment after cursor jump (caused by mouse)? David
2020-10-17 22:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-19 21:00   ` David [this message]

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