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 14:47:54 -0800 Message-ID: <00b701c9992d$6de5bb00$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> References: <5f1c5f16-7f1e-4a0e-a472-5e2b942c3d9d@h20g2000yqn.googlegroups.com> <3a01f111-339b-44b5-bf03-016967a3177d@a39g2000yqc.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 1235774919 2403 80.91.229.12 (27 Feb 2009 22:48:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:48:39 +0000 (UTC) To: "'deech'" , Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 27 23:49:55 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 1LdBWf-0006E1-UM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 23:49:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46825 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LdBVL-0004NA-7I for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:48:27 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LdBUz-0004MS-7b for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:48:05 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LdBUu-0004JM-7v for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:48:01 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=48186 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LdBUs-0004IH-Oc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:47:59 -0500 Original-Received: from rcsinet12.oracle.com ([148.87.113.124]:65526 helo=rgminet12.oracle.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LdBUr-000201-RL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:47:58 -0500 Original-Received: from rgminet15.oracle.com (rcsinet15.oracle.com [148.87.113.117]) by rgminet12.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id n1RMlnm6020284 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:47:50 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt701.oracle.com (acsmt701.oracle.com [141.146.40.71]) by rgminet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id n1RMlpjd025078; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:47:52 GMT Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/141.144.72.147) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:47:48 +0000 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 Thread-Index: AcmZLKtmTgFKu+jITcS4H3TWSPP4kgAAI4BQ X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3350 In-Reply-To: <3a01f111-339b-44b5-bf03-016967a3177d@a39g2000yqc.googlegroups.com> X-Source-IP: acsmt701.oracle.com [141.146.40.71] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090202.49A86D96.0154: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:62458 Archived-At: > > You can undo N steps only, by providing N as a prefix arg. > > For example, `C-u 100 C-/' undoes 100 steps. > > Unfortunately I frequently don't know how many steps need to be > undone. Is there a way of viewing a list of changes (maybe in another > buffer), setting a mark and undo everything upto that point? Dunno. You might find happiness here: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CategoryUndo