From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: two more emacs questions
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 12:02:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <u64ddcbt0.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <009d01c70a7b$6731f190$6b01a8c0@dimalaptop> (vb@vsbe.com)
> From: "Vadim Bendebury" <vb@vsbe.com>
> Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 11:05:50 -0800
>
> Another emacs annoyance (at least for us, unfortunate users of other, less
> priviledged editors ;-)) is its handling of undo. It does not consider
> highligting of the part of the file (like setting marks around a block of
> code) a separate operation. Say I highlighted a 10 line block, cut it, moved
> the cursor to another place in the file and pasted the block there. Then I
> wanted to actually decrease the amount of moved code. I hit undo a few
> times, it does put the code back where it came from, but it skips the
> highlighting step, so at this time, if I wanted to move a 9 line block
> instead of 10 - I need to highlight the entire block again instead of just
> shrinking the highlighted area by a line. Is there a way to make it consider
> highligting a part of the command sequence and folow it in the undo path?
Doesn't "C-x C-x" re-highlight the block again?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-18 10:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-17 19:05 two more emacs questions Vadim Bendebury
2006-11-17 20:31 ` Perry Smith
2006-11-17 22:02 ` vb
2006-11-18 8:20 ` Dieter Wilhelm
2006-11-18 18:39 ` vb
2006-11-19 3:00 ` Dieter Wilhelm
2006-11-19 4:00 ` vb
2006-11-19 10:17 ` Dieter Wilhelm
2006-11-18 10:02 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2006-11-18 18:41 ` vb
2006-11-18 19:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-11-19 4:06 ` vb
2006-11-19 4:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.828.1163922268.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-11-22 9:37 ` Mathias Dahl
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