From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Undo only upto a certain point Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:35:00 -0800 Message-ID: <00ab01c99923$3ebe6520$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> References: <5f1c5f16-7f1e-4a0e-a472-5e2b942c3d9d@h20g2000yqn.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1235770571 21313 80.91.229.12 (27 Feb 2009 21:36:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:36:11 +0000 (UTC) To: "'deech'" , Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 27 22:37:27 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LdAOc-0007Xc-BX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:37:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47199 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LdANH-0003t5-In for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:36:03 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LdAMS-0003ax-Lc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:35:12 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LdAMP-0003Zq-RN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:35:12 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=46756 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LdAMP-0003Zl-Is for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:35:09 -0500 Original-Received: from acsinet11.oracle.com ([141.146.126.233]:19955) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LdAMP-0007OU-0M for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:35:09 -0500 Original-Received: from rgminet15.oracle.com (rcsinet15.oracle.com [148.87.113.117]) by acsinet11.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id n1RLZTo4006923 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:35:30 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt703.oracle.com (acsmt703.oracle.com [141.146.40.81]) by rgminet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id n1RLYwe2008836; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:34:59 GMT Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/141.144.72.147) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:34:55 +0000 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 Thread-Index: AcmZG56NPX+nrc2dSfCATM7zRVV46gAB1Wlw X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3350 In-Reply-To: <5f1c5f16-7f1e-4a0e-a472-5e2b942c3d9d@h20g2000yqn.googlegroups.com> X-Source-IP: acsmt703.oracle.com [141.146.40.81] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090205.49A85C81.0048:SCFSTAT928724,ss=1,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:62448 Archived-At: > Is there a way to undo only upto a certain point and no further. I > frequently run into this problem when I want to undo a large # of > changes (> 50) made using a keyboard macro. Right now I hold down > C-/ , try to time it out just right and frequently fail. Is there a > better way? You can undo N steps only, by providing N as a prefix arg. For example, `C-u 100 C-/' undoes 100 steps.