From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: A strange issue with buffer-undo-list
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2021 09:19:47 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvo8g8i65t.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 874ki090ms.fsf@zoho.eu
>>> I think yes, it's called `atomic-change-group' - see how
[...]
> But if they are to drop buzzwords, isn't this a transaction?
No. It's only part of the properties of a transaction. The one called
"atomicity". In the context of programming language, atomicity is also
important for concurrency (where people usually use locks and stuff
where the purpose is to get atomicity of the "critical region").
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-25 14:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-23 5:19 A strange issue with buffer-undo-list Marcin Borkowski
2021-02-24 0:43 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-02-25 5:16 ` Marcin Borkowski
2021-02-25 5:28 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-02-25 14:19 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2021-02-25 15:58 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-03-08 21:43 ` Marcin Borkowski
2021-02-26 0:53 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-03-08 21:42 ` Marcin Borkowski
2021-03-09 0:32 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-03-09 21:22 ` Marcin Borkowski
2021-02-24 2:11 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-02-24 3:33 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-02-24 4:49 ` Stefan Monnier
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