From: "Roland Winkler" <winkler@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: guaranteed undo boundaries
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2013 08:52:48 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20755.49088.181018.960947@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv6224dyy4.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
On Thu Feb 7 2013 Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > Possibly this is already guaranteed, merely this could be spelled out
> > more explicitly in some docstring / the elisp manual. Possibly, I am
> > missing something else.
>
> By default, undo boundaries are pushed after each command run by
> the user. But every command/function is free to adjust this behavior by
> calling undo-boundary internally (or by removing the boundary, as does
> self-insert-command).
>
> So there's no such guarantee.
> What you can do, OTOH, is something like
>
> (undo-boundary)
> (let ((bottom buffer-undo-list))
> <do-db-update>
> (remove-all-boundaries-between buffer-undo-list bottom))
...where I need to come up with some sensible code for a new
function remove-all-boundaries-between.
Thanks, that strategy makes sense!
Roland
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-07 14:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-07 2:53 guaranteed undo boundaries Roland Winkler
2013-02-07 13:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-02-07 14:52 ` Roland Winkler [this message]
2013-02-07 16:28 ` Stefan Monnier
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